If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then I'm happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.

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.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.

Your opinions about doesn't matter, I know who I am.

It's never too early to think about your legacy, " she would say. "Don't you want to leave some kind of mark that you were here?

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

Life is a struggle to elevate ourselves from nobody to somebody, not ever knowing the secret beauties of being nobody!

If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.

You cant censor peoples dreams.

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.