How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore.

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Until you die .. it's all life.

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls.

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.