If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to look.

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.

Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

Elves don't shimmer

I'm the foe of moderation the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.