Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

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

I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.