"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."

"Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer."