Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

I don't want to hurt people.

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

As Daniel Levitin writes, our brain is a "giant pattern detector." If we read something that coincides with what we already believe we're more likely to give it credence, while the opposite is not true.