Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of the cosmos. If you want a good mythical story it would be the life of Socrates.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence