No, he said that. You don't get to make that call. However if you do want to claim it as his making a statement of fact, guess what kind of burden you have?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
