“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
― The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
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