Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

Take all mistakes for love, because there actually are no mistakes.

Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

The primary energy that is active in all things is kundalini. Kundalini energy is the energy of awareness. It can be used to modify awareness.

True strength isn’t in killing—or ignoring—your opponent, it’s in having the will to shield those who need your protection.

I wish I had a little bit more privacy.

People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.