"Would he grow up to be Maker, Taker, or Faker?"

"Okay, I grant you the provisional status of human beings. Let’s deal."

"In a culture where pessimism has metastasized like slow carcinoma, that crazy Irishman was backward enough to try to …"

"I mean, progress is something with no pity and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew and spits o…"

"“You know,” he said with a dangerous high note in his voice, “in all the nine years the prayers never stopped rising …"

"Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Jo…"

"She was pretty enough to make a preacher kick a hole in a stained-glass window."

"A man should live forever, or die trying."

"Tom said what struck him was how little progress churches have made in two hundred years toward convincing people tha…"

"You humans are at least aware of that supreme paradox—that free will exists to an extent for the individual, but disa…"