“Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.”

Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.

I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Faith without doubt is addiction.

Reality is a question of perspective.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I’m up and down those stairs all the time. That’s my exercise.

Always be nice to people. Whatever how bad they are to you. To show them you are not like them.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

I don’t want to be a bad role model.

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

It’s contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that’s how it is.

As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.

The Gospel is not about going from bad to good, it’s about going from dead to alive!