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

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

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

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

“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”

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

“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.”