"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

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.

GOD is like a streetlight. He keeps observing you silently when it is light and showers you with light when you are in darkness!

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.

What about a Princess Bride?" "Where are we gonna find a six-fingered man on such short notice?

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

Apparently I don't do stairs, I won't walk on carpet and I refuse to walk on grass. How do I do to get around, hover?

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.

If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.