The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

Isn't it time to stop waiting for a partner with an already built empire and start looking for an ambitious partner to build an empire with?

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

It is in your power to release the ability of God.

The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.

Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.

Winning the golden boot is almost what's expected of me.

I get paid to hurt other people, how good is that?

I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words. I scatter them... in time, and space. A message to lead myself here.