“[T]he religion of one age is, as a rule, the literary entertainment of the next.” …
Publications
Thelonious Monk
INTERVIEWER: “Do you believe in God?” MONK: “I don’t know nothing. Do you?” …
Julia Sweeney
“It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at the world not as a …
Harold Pinter
“You know, I had my bar mitzvah when I was thirteen and I never entered a synagogue again. I’ve been to one or two marriages, I think, but I’ve never …
Henry Cavendish
“As to Cavendish’s religion, he was nothing at all. The only subjects in which he appeared to take any interest were science.” …
Peter Lipton
“It’s irrational to fear what death will feel like if you know it won’t feel like anything, but it doesn’t follow that it is irrational to fear death. It’s not …
John Lennon
Imagine Imagine there’s no heaven, It’s easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky. Imagine all the people Living for today. Imagine there’s no country, It …
Annika Sorenstam
“I believe in the good message that exists within religion. But that there is someone up there above the clouds who rules, I doubt.” …
Giuseppe Verdi
“Like many nineteenth-century artists, Verdi was an agnostic whose elevated sense of morality and duty bypassed divine sanction. Strepponi, replying in 1871 to a friend bent on Verdi’s conversion, at …
