There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking.
Christopher HitchensLiterature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
Christopher Hitchens