I don’t have a body, I am a body.

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.

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

Go for it, my heart said, my heart always said.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

The supreme task of the church is the evangelization of the world. No one has the right to hear the gospel twice until everyone has had an opportunity to hear it at least once.