Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve 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.

A dream is only impossible if you allow your thoughts and beliefs to convince you to believe so

And then depression set in....

A sacred spiritual-life is the greatest gratification

If people knew what they were missing, they would give up everything they have to achieve it.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.

Without cavalry, battles are without result.

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.