The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.