“It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.”

“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”

“Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.”

“...a sense that even if every scrap of a life were saved, thrown into a giant mound and then carefully sifted to extract all possible meaning, it would not add up to a life.”

“As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe the possibility exists.”

“Whatever their imagined source, the doctrines of modern religions are no more tenable than those which, for lack of adherents, were cast upon the scrap heap of mythology millennia ago; for there is no more evidence to justify a belief in the literal existence of Yahweh and Satan than there was to keep Zeus perched upon his mountain throne or Poseidon churning the seas.”