The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

There are things about quitting the smoking habit for which nobody prepares you. Did I have any idea that I would indulge in long, drooling-nay, dribbling-lascivious dreams in which I was still wreathed in fragrant blue fumes? I would wake with the complete and guilty conviction that I had sinned in word and deed while I was asleep.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds?