"I'm not a fan of happy endings. I like endings that are true."

"The world is a cacophony of voices, and it's the writer's job to make sense of it."

"The only way to defeat the forces of unreason is with the weapons of reason."

"The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a new Dark Age, when knowledge will be replaced by dogma, and the light of reason extinguished."

"I don't believe in God, but I'm very interested in religion."