I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

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.

Her voice.That's what drew me to her. It was gorgeous, perfect, angelic.Ironic, that a demon should be drawn to the voice of an angel.

I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand.

I broke up with her to avoid getting into a serious relationship with her, and now it

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.

This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers.

I'll never get why the earth is a puzzle that i'll never fit.

If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'