The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that God is, like Santa Claus, a myth of childhood, not anything [that] a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in. That God must either be turned into a symbol for something less concrete or abandoned altogether.

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2014) - ISBN: 9781439126295