Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'.

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.