"I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this."
— Emo Phillips

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. "
— Isaac Asimov

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury

"I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them."
— Philip Pullman

"As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms."
— Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials)