If we subject religious claims to a lesser degree of scrutiny, we should not be surprised if religious people subject us to a greater degree of servitude.

Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.

The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.

Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

The whole room said, "Admire without touching anything and then get out.

When I’d confronted him, he’d left me and, like a parasite finding a fresh host, moved in with her.

Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good.

Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts, " she murmured.

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.

"Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.