Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.

I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

Love, in its purest form, is biology.

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.

You could not be more correct. It does matter. All of it.

Your life has more blue in it than a James Cameron movie.

Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know.

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

instead of venting my anger, which is really just hurt dressed up for a night on the town, I ask if anyone needs a drink.

Triumphing over great difficulties can lead to great happiness.

What the Holy Spirit teaches is the Truth of God.

Do not open that door until I'm in my room. I may be old and losing my hair, but I still want to look nice for a handsome man.

There is no medicine or other intervention that appears to be nearly as effective as exercise in maintaining or even bumping up a person's cognitive abilities.

My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

All will be lost apart from happiness.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

Storms are not afraid of you; all you must do is not to afraid of the storms too!

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.