The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.

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.

where does it derive its strength? is it the blood soaked soil? or the fear stained heart?

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

Loneliness is no respecter of persons. It invades the palace as well as the hut.

Death lurked everywhere. Death was alive and well.

There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

Simplicity within itself is just another complication.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Of course, nobody loves bad comedy, but there's a lot of bad comedy out there.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.