Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds?

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory