Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Don’t waste your life on small dreams. Give yourself permission to dream big.

As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one thing missing: you.

The letter came at a time in his life when the battle inside his soul could have tipped either way.

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.

Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.

Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!