Worship God. It’s easier than thinking.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.

Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.

If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.

The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.

It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.

Es dauerte einen Moment, bis er ihr antwortete:Nein, ich spreche von... von eurer Freiheit, glaube ich. Von dem Glück, das ihr habt, für euch zu leben und auf alles andere zu pfeifen.

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

There is something about loss and pain that opens the doors of wisdom in your heart, doors that would have remained locked for a whole lifetime.

The will of man is his happiness.

RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.

Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'

You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun.

I'm into scales right now.

Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation