I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.

In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased.

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.

A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves.

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.