Tom Waits Quotes

Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us to reject Him but includes the arguments we can use against Him in the Bible. I respect that.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'

Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

What's great about 'Game of Thrones' is they change the perspective, the POV, all the time. So you will have one story told by one character and you'll go, 'Oh my God, horrible', and then maybe the season after you have the same story told but from the person you thought was just the most horrible, vile creature.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

You get Don King's point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He comes across almost like a lovable rogue, like Iago in 'Othello' or Richard III. He's doing all these bad things, but I kind of like him. It's like 'Pulp Fiction': Everybody's a bad guy, yet you like them.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

After all, God is God because he remembers.

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.