I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth - for all men together to enjoy.

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an anarchist, and a feminist, and an integrationist.

Love your friend with his fault.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out tomorrow and committed one act of rebellion.

I'm still working for the government.

I've always lived by the creed that you're never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up.

There's no such thing as an "absolute guarantee" in this world.

When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.

Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness.