Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.

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.

If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Hide your kids, hide your wife, don't change the channel, this is monday night raw and The Miz is the WWE champion.

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

If you don't smell nice before the game, it's going to be pretty bad during and after.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.