There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking.

To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

Hero­ism breaks its heart, and ide­al­ism its back, on the intran­si­gence of the cred­u­lous and the mediocre, manip­u­lated by the cyn­i­cal and the corrupt.