Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.

The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that exists, of whom could you possibly be jealous?

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.

The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.

one doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine.

For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs.

He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.

We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.

Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.

The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.

When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.