I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.