People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.

You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.

... uncritical love is the only real treasure.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.