To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.

As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all.

Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.

As for an eternity in heaven - that would be hell!

They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

I will not let us be beings of regret. I know my past. What I want is my future.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem

We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia.

May summer last a hundred years.

Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.