It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

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.

What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

Your life is not about what you are doing. Yet, it is true that what you are doing is often a reflection of what your life is about.

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

Every thought you have has an energy that will either strengthen or weaken you.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.