I'm very happy by myself - I'm lucky in that way - if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.

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.

You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.

Positivity of Life and Negativity of Mind cannot exist together. The more you keep on adapting the positivity into your mind, the more beautiful your world will become.

He then reaches a new low. Without warning, he is suddenly set upon by a bear.

The redemption of a country depends on the position of the church

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

No successful company has had ever been the product of just one person.

But I so want to walk that razor's edge, Take feeling to a whole new level.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.

What is Paris? ... Where nobody throws stones, for all live in glass houses.