I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

So there's nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn't really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it's the most nauseating spectacle.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.

I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people I know to be or suspect to be Jewish. And I don't say 'Happy Kwanzaa,' because I think African Americans get enough insults all year round.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.