Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

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

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.