"Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals."

"Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?"

"For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization."

"I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it."

"Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that the silence between the notes creates the music."