Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.

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.

... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

A lot of artists talk about getting out of their comfort zones and being the most proud of their newest album. But it is true for me. I rethought a lot of what I do.

Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

If there isn't a sequence of 15 previous passes, a good transition between attack and defence is impossible. Impossible.

For me, playing a vampire isn't about the fact that they're a vampire, it's about who they are specifically.