I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But I think it's very important to keep that under control and not to hand it over to be exploited by priests and shamans and rabbis and other riffraff.