This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?

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.

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past.

Pretty's just a pretty word.

I'm just funnier when I'm drunk. Not falling-down drunk, just drunk enough to lose the self-doubt.

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.

The good quarterbacks in this league, if you're not playing your best, sometimes will win a game for you

Life insurance companies are failing to pay out death benefits when they know the person is dead, and they're claiming they don't know.

It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.

I think everybody makes mistakes. People do things that they regret.

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.