“I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.”

“I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.”

“People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.”

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”

“I'm an admirer of everything Dr. Martin Luther King stood for, but I don't think he would have stood for this”

“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true.”

“I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.”