You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene