I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.

I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

Love, in its purest form, is biology.

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.

You could not be more correct. It does matter. All of it.

Your life has more blue in it than a James Cameron movie.

Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know.

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

instead of venting my anger, which is really just hurt dressed up for a night on the town, I ask if anyone needs a drink.

Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

As I grabbed my cocoa, chocolate ran down my hand."This makes me feel like a five-year-old, " I said, licking it off."If I ordered a sandwich at this place, do you think they'd cut the crusts off?

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.

I may not be a human, but I am a man.

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.