The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

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.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .