"I think the job of a writer is to be a witness, to bear witness to the world."

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

"The idea of the sacred is one of the most dangerous ideas in human history."

"People often ask me what I think about the internet. I think it's a great place to find cat videos."

"The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a new Dark Age, when knowledge will be replaced by dogma, and the light of reason extinguished."