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.

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

[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?

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."

Change has to come from outside our corrupt system.

Samples are kind of my instrument of choice.

I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?

If you can’t be good, be colorful.

I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.