It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.