A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.

If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.