Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.