To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing.

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?

As he drove away from his handiwork, knowing he'd left no survivors, the killer looked at the rising smoke and gave himself a pat on the back for another assignment well done...

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.

Bernie Sanders is a crazy man.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.

Now I can show you my true nature.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.