Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

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.

I live in the first drop of ink that touches every blank page.

I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

If you wake up today, it's on purpose, it's a gift.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity Simplicity Sympathy and Serenity.

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.