If you're offended, it's your problem.
What can't be cured must be endured.
The problem's name is God.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.