Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

I don’t have a body, I am a body.

Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

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

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.