Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

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.

The topography of literature, the fact in fiction, is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road.

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.