A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.