“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”

“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”

“Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.”

“I want to be there when every one suddenly understands what it has all been for. All the religions of the world are built by this longing, and I am a believer.”

“I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.”

“All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.”