An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who say, "Why didn't you say so before? God has a plan for you in mind."

I vote and I do jury duty.

This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.

Of course, I do everything for money.