I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

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.

A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive

The Holy Spirit’s desire is that we become more and more dependent upon Him for every step. That’s because He wants to take us to places we’ve never been before. To heights we can’t even imagine!

If you want to have peace of mind, you need to listen to your heart or your inner nature. If you want to have peace of mind, you need to listen to your heart or your inner nature.

My favourite part... I guess it's my legs.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

What you need will come back to you.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.