The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope

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.

Be careful which spirit you allow to dwell in your body. It is better to allow good spirit.

To copy faults is want of sense.

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.