Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.

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.

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.