An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that.

If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.

Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.