“Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.”

Define yourself by what you love.

It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.

Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.

You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.

Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.

How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.

Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.

I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Who’s the world going to revolve around now?

Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.

If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…

A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.

The phrase ‘off with the crack of the bat’, while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

There’s a lot of things I would definitely go to bat for in Hawaii. I’ve been all over that stuff. If someone told me to be quiet about that because of my profession, no. That’s my people.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

I don’t believe that there’s a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it’s like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that’s OK – the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

My pitching philosophy is simple – keep the ball way from the bat.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.