The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.

I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

You can only have one aim per debate.

Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.