Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death'.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would-I don't know, I wish it upon everybody. It's heaven.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.