[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

There was only one catch and that was catch 22

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)