“our god, the creator of heaven and earth, is completely mad”

“The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.”

“The objectivity of the narrator is a modern invention, we need only reflect that our Lord God didn’t want it in his book.”

“There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.”

“in order to invent heaven and hell a man would need to know nothing except the human body”

“Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.”

“We all know, however, that the enormous weight of tradition, habit, and custom that occupies the greater part of our brain bears down pitilessly on the more brilliant and innovative ideas of which the remaining part is capable, and although it is true that, in some cases, this weight can balance the excesses and extravagances of the imagination that would lead us God knows where were they given free rein, it is equally true that it often has a way of subtly submitting what we believed to be our free will to unconscious tropisms, like a plant that does not know why it will always have to lean toward the side from which the light comes.”