When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

I voted for every woman who has to leave a baby too soon, who has to downgrade her career, or who is made to feel invisible in her role as a mother.

Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

I think because I was brought up in a Christian home, I was kind of careful not to swear in my lyrics.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

Network Spinal Analysis inspires us to trust the healing power within.

There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

I'm an utterly average, total geek.

There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.