It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

Blessed are those who encounter a mystery in their lives because they obtain a big opportunity to live the great joy of solving puzzles!

God damn, do I have to be y'all's babysitter?

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

We also play a Father/Son at home and I play with Steve, too. I try to mix it up. We play two or three times a year, but that's about it.

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it.