Tom Robbins really helped me to be a critical thinker. I have so many favorite quotes. Here's 3

1. "An outlaw is an agent of choice and an apostle of otherness "
2. "It's never to late to have a happy childhood"
3. “The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions (anger, jealousy, etc) to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago.”

Douglas Adams. I can't think of any good quotes at the moment though.

Rudyard kipling

This From Aristotle.

I'm not influenced in my atheism, but my favorites are Samuel Clemens, Tim Minchin, and Richard Dawkins.

I was an atheist before I knew the meaning of the word. As I had to trounce the religious tendencies of ex in-laws and an ex-wife, Hitchens played an integral role in verbalizing the disgustst I have for religion. While I share a great fascination with Hitch, as he could verbally decimate anyone, I certainly haven't the ability to remember too many of his quotes, but YouTube has an extensive collection of his verbal assaults. My absolute favorite quote though comes from Ricky Gervais ... "'It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for."

I am a fan of Ingersoll, most of my reading on him has said he was an agnostic. I also like Friedrich Nietzsche, Voltaire, Hitchens and Sam Harris.

George carlin and Jim Jeffries.

Hitchens all the way.

"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence". Hitchens' Razor still cuts deep.

I'm with the people here who don't follow anyone. I've been an atheist since birth, so no one has ever influenced me in this subject. However, I do love Bill Maher, Ricky Gervais, Eddie Izzard, and Sam Harris.

That is an AWESOME quote that I'd never heard before! Do like what I've read by Ingersoll. My favorite is only tangentially related to atheism: "Incredible claims require incredible evidence." -Carl Sagan

My grandpa, "I can't be doing with all that claptrap!"

Wasn’t his son nailed to a tree or something?

I'm not interested in following someone. I have my own thoughts, and not willing to give them up for someone else's thoughts. I've seen a lot of similar stuff on this site. I just don't get it.

I figured it out on my own. I didn't need ideas from other people and support for my beliefs. That is what believers do.

Alan Watts?

Hitchens by far.