I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

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

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.