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

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.

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.

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open,because you never know what's going to come your way.

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.