All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

The less you think, the more you believe.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Science is the poetry of reality.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Only men who have invested time to become the best in what they do are fit to sit and dine with great men.

The long sadness of winter was finally in retreat.

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.

I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way. And in that way, it's just like having a friend, I suppose.

Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.