I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

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.

Modernity kills ghostly romance("The Undying Thing")

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences.

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.

I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.