The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.

The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or too weak) to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent.