"I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry."

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I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.

— Richard Dawkins