I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all.

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.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming.

That world is growing in this minute.

You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.

I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.