“Being God's postman is no fun, yar.Butbutbut: God isn't in this picture. God knows whose postman I've been.”

“And my grandfather... was forever knocked into that middle place, unable to worship a God in whose existence he could not wholly disbelieve. Permanent alteration: a hole.”

“to admit we do not understand a phenomenon is not to admit the presence of the miraculous but merely, reasonably, to accept the limitations of human knowledge. God was invented to explain what our ancestors couldn't comprehend: the radiant mystery of being. The existence of the incomprehensible, however, is not a proof of god.”

“human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions”

“The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.”

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”

“When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.”