If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then I'm happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.

If you can charm everyone it means you don't care about anyone in particular.

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if God didn't tell them to do so.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.