People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.

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.

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

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

Neither wit nor beauty nor riches can conquer misery, only kindness can.

A beautiful poem is like a beautiful sky and a beautiful sky is like a beautiful poem!

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.

Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.

As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon, i was maybe 8 or 9.

How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.

Disruption on the first day always looks like a toy.