Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

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.

In the country of the story the writer is king.

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

When the lyrical content is based on the word of God it becomes covenanted.

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

That whole country, Malaysia has a history of telling other countries back off, we'll do our business. They're pretty stubborn bunch of people. So they will do what they have to do.

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

I am alone with the masses.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election.