You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating.

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

Make deals with people, not paper.