"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."
(Aldous Huxley)

"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die."
(Bill Watterson)

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
 (Chapman Cohen)

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil."
(Albert Einstein)

"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her."
(Arthur C. Clarke)

"I had a kind of revelation in the Sinai desert, where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Suddenly I experienced a total rejection of monotheism. In this very rocky, inspiring land, I said to myself that the idea of believing in only one God was cretinous. I could not think of another word. And the stupidest religion of all is Islam. When one reads the Koran one is devastated, devastated. At least the Bible is very beautiful because the Jews have a sacred literary talent which can excuse a lot of things."
(Michel Houellebecq)

"I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose."
(George Orson Welles)

"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
(Saint Francis of Assisi)

"I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us."
(Sigmund Freud, 1939)

"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."
(Georges Duhamel)