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My mother was Southern Irish, and I was brought up as a devout Catholic. In fact, at one point I thought I'd become a priest, but I'd have made an appalling priest anyway... At 16, I asked all these monks some serious questions and they didn't come up with the answers, and I just decided I didn't believe in God.

Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him a ride.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?