My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.

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.

A finished person is a boring person.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.

Using these new funds, I will ask my secretary of defense to propose a new defense budget to meet the following longtime goals.

They call me Fearless Felix.

I believe that challenges can push us beyond what we might otherwise be able to accomplish.

Cooking is a great way to get back in touch with things that brought us comfort.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.