"Religion is a mixed blessing."

"You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'"

"The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world."

"I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God."

"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature."

"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."

"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."

"If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression."