That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority.

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.

Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?

For in music there is no material to be deducted.

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision the determination and the courage to reach it.

But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

My daughter used to sit and watch Murder, She Wrote. I tried to watch with her, but I fell asleep.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.