I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.

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.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

I always say to my students, if you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.

People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.

I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are.

If you focus on what you left behind, you'll never be able to see what lies ahead.

Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one

Money cannot help lifting its head.

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.