To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

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

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.