If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.

Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.

People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.