Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going.

Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.