Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

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.

The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.'

I'm no less rock 'n' roll than anyone else, I'm pretty normal.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.

I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.