“When I read something saying I’ve not done anything as good as Catch-22 I’m tempted to reply, ‘Who has?’”
- Joseph Heller
“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centures since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”
- Isaac Asimov [on religion]
“For years now people have criticised the Bush administration for intelligence failures, specifically, the Presdent’s failure to be intelligent.”
- Stephen Colbert
“People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our society, not in our halls of power.”
- Sam Harris [on religion]
