I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

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.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

Do whatever you gotta do to chase your legacy every second of your life.

Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.