If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

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

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

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.