Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

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

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.

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

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

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

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.