“The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.”
“Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.”
“The next day I woke up in a sullen simmer, as if sleep had catalyzed my depression into a general state of pissed-offedness.”
“They say there are no atheists in foxholes. I say there are no atheists when you're begging God to keep alive the person you love.”
“He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.”
“If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.”