Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.

Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.