I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they were and which ones might have life.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

The less you think, the more you believe.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Science is the poetry of reality.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.

The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

It doesnt matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.