I'm dying, but so are you

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.

If you don't value yourself, you're not going to draw valuable things into your life.

Greatness unfolds beyond your comfort zone.

I think the birds in the area are dying laughing watching me try not to crash.

When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink.

In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such have no class character.

... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.