Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.

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.

Your most precious asset is your right thinking!

He had a great sound system - but he didn't know much about fidelity.

The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.

Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.