“An ugly face needs make-up; that's why Man needs religion.”

“What goes around, doesn't come around... you make it come around.”

“Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.”

“That's why I need a man who can sweep away the mess I made.”

“But even if religion makes no sense to you, you need to make sense of religion to to make sense of the world.”

“I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?”

“Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.”