In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.

I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.