“Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”

“Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.”

“So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born.”

“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”

“Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-”

“The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.”

“For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world ... Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and s...”

“I sing to you of many more gods, gods of wind and water, gods of each mineral and the events that created them. I sing to you of the gods of protons, of quarks, of atomic forces binding and holding...”