There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.