There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel. "Tell no one" was often his command.

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

The clarity of perception makes reality look as it is.

The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.

We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears.

You're like Lady MacBeth without the murder.""Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me.

And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish.

I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!

Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.