To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

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.

Once you attain the state of Absolute Oneness or Non-Duality, you become one of those spiritual legends that humanity so gloriously venerates as the founding fathers of religion.

A thousand minus one is never a thousand

real life nightmares kills me as an old man trying to escape from bad guilty memories who basically lives in the present.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

I'd rather argue with you, angel, than laugh with anyone else." Jesus. It took me a minute to be able to swallow the last bite in my mouth. "You know . . . I love you madly." He smiled. "Yes, I know.