It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.