Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.