Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

The further from law you move, the closer to claw you come.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces.