Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good or ill. But it should not be a powerful weapon at all.

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.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."— Aristotle

Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb.

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin.

I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Love is the thing that you pursue because it's the thing that gives you all this life, or you believe that, anyway.