‘Broken dreams and a hole in the ground’

“What’s wrong with homemade aragh sagi?”

“This isn’t a movie, it’s a drinking game.”

“A Penis could still be out there, I thought.”

“I would like to get back to the Censor and agree to lose the shits, take the odd Jesus Christ out and lose Oh fuck off, but to retain ‘fart in your general direction,’ ‘castanets of your testicles’ and ‘oral sex.'”

“… and I plucked a volume from the shelf in an act of private teenaged rebellion, my reactive state subdued slowly, page by page, through timeless stories …”

“ I hope the backlash against The Bible Tells Me So will be so over the top that millions of young people will wonder what the fuss is all about and pick up this wonderful book.”

“When Americans aren’t busy praying for themselves or their own needs — and most of them are — many are seeking divine intervention on behalf of a favorite sports team or the golden ticket in the lottery.”

“With pray’r alone, we have survived ’til now.”

“The social-media stream puts moral life on shuffle — and expresses the fact that, while being a good person matters perhaps more than anything, it’s also very unclear how one might go about being good.”

“It was a group of people that, on the one hand, must have been assumed to be sufficiently cynical about the nature of the Church that such frank admissions wouldn’t be jarring or alarming, but at the same time, be deemed to be sufficiently trustworthy that they could be trusted with such a potentially damning document.”

“We hemmed and hawed a bit, and then told him that it was a report from Cincinnati that a gang of Bolsheviki there were planning to come down to Dayton and butcher Bryan.”

“The discovery is based on the science project of a 13-year-old girl, who spent the summer gathering soil and tree samples from areas around Los Angeles hardest hit by infections of the fungus named Cryptococcus gattii.”

“But, he says, architects are responsible for the spaces they build, which are all, in the end, for people.”

“We’re all annoyed, but the universe is vast.”

“Babylon is the world’s leading dictionary and translation software.”

“That explains everything.”