A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.

I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.

Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag.

It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.

I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important.