Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

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 don't understand how can people hold faith and reasoning in the same head. To my understanding, faith, like love, is blind.

Witches release the chapters of the past, which invites the novels of the future.

Art is not an end in itself but a means of addressing humanity.

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.

I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.

The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.

I said it was a mistake. It wasn't the best choice. But all my emails have been turned over to the public.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.