If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

First sentences are doors to worlds.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.