Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

I've always known that even if the world threatens to collapse, with one hand, you'd hold up the sky, and the other, around me.

Romy had never done a budget, Marisol had never designed costumes and sets, and Suzanne had never acted, but when I asked them to help, they didn't hesitate

Do others see something of Christ in your life? Do they see a “family resemblance” to Him by the way you live?

Focus your whole attention on heaven

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.

Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey, it's home.