When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.

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

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

Of course, I do everything for money.