“This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms-folded them into its genes-and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.”

“Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.”

“Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.”

“Billions of years ago God was creating universes and life; thousands of years ago he was creating angry floods, sin-saving human sacrifices and audible burning bushes. Today he occasionally appears on a piece of toast. To state that God has become reclusive over the years would be an overwhelming understatement.”

“States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. ("Absolute Evil")”

“It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.”