For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

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.

A person may know things by somebody else's experience but a person will always learn things by his own personal experience.

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

You are not just waiting in vain. There is a purpose behind every delay.

Love dies only when growth stops.

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.

Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.