You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.

What is the purpose of the universe?" is a silly question.

Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'.