The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

It's a better tradition for people who think for themselves and who don't pray in aid of any supernatural authority. That's what you should be spending your life is in spreading and deepening that tradition.

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

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

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.

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.