In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.