Sarah

“A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

“A writer, like a cinematographer, manipulates the viewer’s perspective on an ongoing story, with the verbal equivalent of camera angles and quick cuts.”
― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

“Modern biblical scholars have established that the Bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character names, and conceptions of God, and it was subjected to haphazard editing that left it with many contradictions, duplications, and non sequiturs.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“One way to drive home the futility and evil of war is to tap the distancing power of satire.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined