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Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from readers who were disgusted with the depiction of monotheistic religion. I've also heard from readers who were upset because my portrayal of faith did not adhere to their specific doctrines. Fortunately, I have high risk tolerance.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.