Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option - legend.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.

You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.

Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.

As time goes on, thing do get made up.

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.

Maybe love is something we’re meant to say casually and not regard as a prize from a treasure chest that a person earns.

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.

Every institution is inherently demonic.

When I think about my Glamazon, would that character get down if someone said her thighs were heavy? No, she knows what other people think is none of her damn business.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.