"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."
— Richard Dawkins

"Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are."
— Richard Bach (Illusions)

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."
— Richard Bach (Illusions)

"All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out."
— Richard Kadrey (Butcher Bird: A Novel Of The Dominion)

""Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't." -Richard David Bach
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— Richard Bach

"Mind the gap!"
— Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere: A Novel)

"wop-bop-a-lu-bop...
a-lop-bam-boom!"
— R.W. Penniman

"I don't like using the word evil because it sounds as if that's all there is to be said about the person. I don't think Richard III is evil, I don't think it's helpful to say that...Iago he's not evil. Iago didn't get the job, he thinks his wife's been unfaithful to him, he doesn't like black people, he's extremely talented and very unfulfilled and he's a wonderful liar, and he's a mischeif maker and he does some dreadful, dreadful things. But that's already interesting, isn't it? Ooh, who is this guy? But if you just say "ah oh he's evil" how can you play that? I don't know how you play an evil person."
— Ian McKellan

"Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?"
— Richard Wright

"Honor among thieves? There's no such thing. You see, because I was put in prison by a man I knew thirty years and I liked him. Big mistake. I had one friend too many. I'm now serving multi life sentences because my one friend. And he's the only friend I didn't kill."
— Richard Kuklinski

""I don't want to go to Peru."
"How do you know? You've never been there."
"I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there."
— Richard Paul Evans (The Sunflower: A Novel)

""if its true for u then its true for u" I think there is something more absolute about truth that that (faith is not truth). and I care about truth. I dont mean I wish to impose it, if ppl dont wish to learn about what's really true then far be it for me to force it on them. but i want to give them the opportunity, i dont want children to be brought up sheltered from the truth by a wall of separation from the truth which is deliberately erected by tradition, by authority in their particular culture."
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— Richard Dawkins Part 1 interview on The Hour youtube