By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally.

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?

120 million of us place the big bang 2, 500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one.

Even the purest of souls get ravished and consumed by the most thirsty quintessential desire to possess power.

Adventure lies not in the places we seek, but in the moments we create in the places we treasure.

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

It's a little weird accepting your voice coming out of an animated character. You don't buy it at first because it's your voice and none of us like our voices when we hear them recorded back.

It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.

If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

The Kremlin, this cadre of people supporting Vladimir Putin, and Vladimir Putin himself understand is strength, is resolve.

When we are in fear, there is no room for love, and when we are in love, there is no room for fear.