I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

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.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.

I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene.

It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.

I don't know how people live without coffee, I really don't.

Rose, nothing in this world could make me hate you." "Not even trying to bring my ex-boyfriend back from the dead?

I cannot live without children.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.