Quotes
Verily learned to live with constant deception, hiding what he was and what he saw and what he felt and what he did from everyone around him. It was only natural that he should be drawn to the study of law.
“Our savior will resurrect us,” said Peggy, “but I haven’t noticed that Christians end up any less dead at the end of life than heathens.”
She can't help her red skin, and she isn't heathen. In fact, she's a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!
“You must be a prophet right enough,” said Alvin Junior, “cause I can’t understand a thing you said.”
It's plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
“I've done my best, but the boy is unteachable. He doubts everything, and contests each point of theology as if it were required to meet the same tests of logic and consistency that prevail in the world of science.”
“In other words, he expects your doctrines to make sense.”
“He is unwilling to accept the idea that some things remain mysteries, comprehensible only to the mind of God. Ambiguity makes him saucy, and paradox causes open rebellion.”
“An obnoxious child.”
Sunday morning, he decided, is designed to let sinners have a sample of the first day of eternity in hell.
A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.
