One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.

Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.

I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.

The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

And he listened to me. That was the thing he did, as if he was trying to fill himself up with all the sound he could hear.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

I feel so bad for him [Bernie Sanders]. It's really unfortunate that he's been caught in the crossfire here.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

I don't wear lipstick when I'm not at work.

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.