“Not many years before the Happening, one of your country's largest religious bodies officially declared that their book was holier than their God, thus simultaneously and corporately breaking sever...”

“Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a ...”

“People are... Full of contradictions. They're lonely. And then they're not. They're missed. And then they're not.”

“Society had more and more rules, and laws that contradicted the rules, and new rules that contradicted the laws. People felt too frightened to take even a step outside the invisible regulations tha...”

“A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.”

“I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that...”

“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.”

“Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.")”

“We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded?”