As time goes on, thing do get made up.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option - legend.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.

You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.

Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter’s evening.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

I just love New York. New York has energy, it has culture, New York is very diverse. There's not a better place in the world.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

I don't want any woman to think that I don't have empathy and deep care for all women's body issues. I just want to make sure that we don't only focus on the most palatable ones.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.

The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.