I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking.

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

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

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.