There are good, humanitarian people everywhere - occasionally even in the Church.

Late one night our house was attacked with stones and bricks by five or six young Christians, and my father got very upset and frightened. Well, the next day he dropped dead of a heart attack. The community knew very well that he had a heart condition, so I lay a murder to the city of Baltimore.

The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

I don't feel that people should glom onto other people. I feel that relationships should be nice and easy and convenient and happy and not strictured with legality or jealousy.

I don't think the Church has ever contributed anything to anybody, anyplace, at any time.

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.