A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Men get drunk and boast, or they get religion and repent.

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

If I did sales - my technique would be to hand-seal each deal with gourmet omelets, by Jarod Kintz's secret invisible recipe that I stole.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.

They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.