“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”
“Every religion is tailored down to the level of intelligence of the people embracing it and Islam takes the cake for being the most tailored religion.”
“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”
“In fact, I don’t understand religion at all and as far as I can see the only thing it does is hasten the slaughter of people who generally seem to be minding their own business.”
“You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in a human being. With hatred, apparently, it is otherwise.”
“I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.”