Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Things that are not at all, are never lost.

I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind of manufacture highs and lows.

A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.