The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.