"The greatest weapon against fear is laughter."

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

"The greatest danger to freedom is the abandonment of reason."

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep."

"It is, after all, the right of the people to be absolutely idiotic if they wish."