We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

The only deadline is the one I give myself.

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.

Christians and Jews don't believe in Allah or Brahma. Hindus don't believe in Yahweh or Allah. Muslims don't believe in Brahma or Yahweh. Atheists agree with all of them.

We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude.

The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village

To awaken quite alone in a strange parallel universe is the priceless moment to a time traveler!

Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.

Not the power to remember but its very opposite the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.

Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.