Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.