I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.