I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamn lonely anymore.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.