Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

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.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.

The problem with a lot of people is that they keep trying to make ends meet without knowing the difference between their wants and needs.

Attraction is an evil. It takes you to the wonderland that doesn't exist. The exit becomes tough, then.

Life is an incurable disease.

I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

words same as always same as nothing when nothing is the same

I'm basically a computer science nerd.

It is always too soon to quit.