A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.

You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc.

Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.

The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was born in a country where the dominant religion was Christianity so I believed in that one. Isn't it weird how that always happens?). Luckily I was also interested in science and nature. And reason and logic. And honesty and truth. And equality and fairness. By the age of eight I was an atheist.