Most Christians are afraid that people will think for themselves; most atheists are afraid that they won’t.

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

Just because history says it isn't possible doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions.

I'd gone so far past my fear threshold, I'd completely given up on being afraid

Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.

Cigarrettes make you look cool