“Jarrett would be easier to take if he cared half as much about children’s bodies and minds as he pretends to care about their souls.”

Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 11, “Apes” (p. 184)

"The voice of the lonely crowd" (2002)
Source: The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11
Context: The 20th century, with its scores of millions of supernumerary dead, has been called the age of ideology. And the age of ideology, clearly, was a mere hiatus in the age of religion, which shows no sign of expiry. Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. To be clear: an ideology is a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality; a religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

Nicolas Love, April 1987
1975 - 1987, BBC interview (1981)
Source: Warhol in his own words – Untitled Statements ( 1963 – 1987), selected by Neil Printz, in Andy Warhol, retrospective, Art and Bullfinch Press / Little Brown, 1989, pp. 457 – 467

Source: My Name Is Memory

Part 2 “Aleph”, Chapter 2 (p. 51)
Against Infinity (1983)

Source: My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

Source: Written in Red

Introduction (1966)
Sometimes misquoted as: Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Mother Night (1961)