Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

The only deadline is the one I give myself.

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.

Christians and Jews don't believe in Allah or Brahma. Hindus don't believe in Yahweh or Allah. Muslims don't believe in Brahma or Yahweh. Atheists agree with all of them.

We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude.

The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. That's true of all types of consumer electronics.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

The course is perfection and it asks perfection.

I wanted to do something not just commercial but also covetable.

For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.