“Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes of a being that does not exist.”

“The fact that people were attentive to his body does not compensate for their ignoring his being.”

“Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?”

“Sex isn't good unless it means something. It doesn't necessarily need to mean "love" and it doesn't necessarily need to happen in a relationship, but it does need to mean intimacy and connection...There exists a very fine line between being sexually liberated and being sexually used.”

“One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.”

“Games were being played, that was all, and games of which he was largely ignorant and wished to remain so.”