“Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.”

“Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.”

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

“I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three.”

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

“Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. Like many millions of people, I am a bastard child of history. Perhaps we all are, black and brown and white, leaking into one another, as a character of mine once said, like flavours [sic] when you cook”

“If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.”