Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

- Philip Appleman

God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.

- Philip Appleman

HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.

- Philip Appleman

This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

- Philip Appleman

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.

- Philip Appleman