But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel. "Tell no one" was often his command.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

Mortals are odd creatures in that sense—flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding of their nature.

No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Why are you behaving like this? You know how much I love you … and Ibelieve you love me as much, so why are you avoiding me?

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

I have to say, the other day I was reading some negative comments, and I was thinking they were really funny. So I guess they don't anymore.

Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

I was told that [Japan journalists] wanted to see my dog, Yume. You can see that she is in great shape.