In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.

Referees don't come down here with a particular flavoured shirt on.

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.