Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

The faithful believe that certain truths have been 'revealed.' The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.