If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.