It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or mora….

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly..

By 40, all women are amazing..

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself..

Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every id….

I lived and languished..

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety..

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are..

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how….

Words will be just words till you bring them to life.

I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life, so….

This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark..

I am occasionally loveable but for the most part I’m like loving a raincloud..

The simpler things are, the happier they are..

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier..

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets..

In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an Am….

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything.

Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potentia….

3-D movies can make me nauseous..

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact..