Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

The only deadline is the one I give myself.

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.

Christians and Jews don't believe in Allah or Brahma. Hindus don't believe in Yahweh or Allah. Muslims don't believe in Brahma or Yahweh. Atheists agree with all of them.

We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude.

The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.

Wish for the best, problems will follow you, challenges will come in the way when you move on, and your wisdom of learning will save you!

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

I can't wait to wake up in the morning and listen to music in order to try to find something to work with.

Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.

Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.

Thirty millions, mostly fools.