Philip Pullman Quotes

Mr. Greene. Some parts of your book are certain to offend some Catholics, but you should pay no attention to that.

Being critical of Tom Cruise is being critical of Scientology itself. You are evil.

Here's the thing about people who believe in god... They're idiots.

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.

In America we don’t apologize for opinions, that’s why we have a 1st Amendment. If we can’t discuss even controversial opinions in the pages of our newspapers, where are we going to do it?

All that impugn a received religion or superstition are, by the adverse part, branded with the name of atheists.

Behind that innocent face is the power of satanic darkness. Harry Potter is the devil and he is destroying people

I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.

I think for us - and for a lot of people in the Church of Satan - we definitely like ruffling people's feathers and poking fun at organized religion a little bit.

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.

Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.

The character I play has all these revolutionary ideas. I think the classic thing is that majority people who are criticising it probably have never read the books, and need to. And I'm sure that the Catholic Church, which is being directed as you know, can handle it.

The people who got everything wrong are back on TV talking about the place they got all wrong? Cheney, Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle. It's like Satan's VIP list for Hell.

When people started reading me and talking to me about the work, they didn't say how funny, or how satiric, or how brilliant, or how this or how that, they said, how'd you get away with it? How'd you get that into print?

When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.

I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.

Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in criticisms of religion even clarity ceases to be a virtue and sounds like aggressive hostility. A politician may attack an opponent scathingly across the floor of the House and earn plaudits for his robust pugnacity. But let a soberly reasoning critic of religion employ what would in other contexts sound merely direct or forthright, and it will be described as a 'rant'.

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.

People having religions is an insult to the universe.

I think that people don't make the most of their lives. So, you know, for me, it seems like it's the beginning of me rattling the cage, of making some people nervous. And people are strategically trying to do things to mute my voice in some way or make me look like I'm a lunatic or pinpoint the inaccuracies in my grammar to somehow take away from the overall message of what I'm saying.

My books are about killing God.

Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.