That would be the frontispiece. This was a picture of my mother and me coming out of the United States Supreme Court, with fecal matter smeared acros….

I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of seeking asylum in Canada or Australia or En….

One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. . . . He is….

You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts..

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer..

I'm thrilled to feel that I can rely on myself totally and absolutely; that my children are being brought up so that when they meet a problem they ca….

Organizing atheists is like hurding cats.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me..

I want a big man physically as well as intellectually. l want a man with the thigh muscles to give me a good frolic in the sack, the kind who'll tear….

Once involved in the school-prayer fight, I rapidly became aware of, and appalled by, the political and economic power of the Church in America -all ….

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheis….

Those so-called records in the Bible were written by devout ecclesiasts who wanted to believe, and wanted others to believe, in the coming of a Messi….

It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy,….

We packed up all the worldly possessions we could carry with us and took the next flight to Hawaii from Washington. It took just about every cent my ….

I'm not proud of having been married -I've had five affairs, all of them real wingdings. I've enjoyed every goddamned minute of them, but sooner or l….

The agnostic is gutless and prefers to keep one safe foot in the god camp..

The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools,….

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches..

The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him a little kitten to play….

I think this word 'disbelieve' would be the best of all possible worlds if everybody were an atheist or an agnostic or a humanist - his or her own pa….

I'm not saying that all American men are this way, but nine out of ten are breast-fixated, wham-bam-thank-you-rna'am cretins who just don't give a da….