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

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.

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.

Life is what you want it to be, not what others want to be

You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.

Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.