The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.