Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.

It’s not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn’t make them less important

I think our brain is our soul. I don’t believe in after-life and much less in a sort of buildings-like heaven, where you meet friends, enemies, relatives.

Maybe you are a memory who is supposed to live forever.

But life wasn't a fairy tale, and I had no problem doing what was necessary to get what I wanted, even if it meant playing dirty.

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

The Saw Is Family is a great site. You can quote me on that.

Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that.

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.

I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.