With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.