If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

‎"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

In Britain you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion gives strong sanction to both-and mixes explosively with both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today.