"If we know that we're in a recession and our government gives us the equivalent of monopoly money to play with to kill the pain, we're idiots, we're complete idiots if we take the money and we spend it on toys." (>>)

"[On thinking about Hell] What you don’t want to end up with is the picture that some theologies have of a wonderful, glorious countryside with a concentration camp in the middle with people being tortured. I think the 19th century rightly reacted against that image, and I don’t think there’s any way back to that except perhaps by closing our hearts to the sort of pity and love which we are told is at the heart of God himself." (>>)

"...a gradual loss of interest and emotion." (>>)

"It seems to me that a lot of evangelicals have a religious experience that basically amounts to a kind of protection racket; a Christianized version of paganism, where you beg the gods to keep bad things from happening to you and work out your problems." (>>)

"the ring that you twist,
the song that you hum" (>>) [MP3]

"They say time will kill the pain
I say pain is gonna kill my time
Lord won't you save me
Or leave me alone
Cause when it's good, it's so, so good
But when it's gone, it's gone (>>) [MP3]