Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?