The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

A Great voice has fallen silent. A great heart has stopped.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

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