If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.