"One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs."

"I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year."

"Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel."

"On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous."

"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character."

"For me, habit is just a synonym for death."