The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them. - George Alec Effinger

Now we have the prospect of a religious war on our hands, with the attendant proliferation of “heresies” and two separate but equal inquisitions.

The only negative thing she had to say was that I displayed a tendency to exaggerate the facts for the sake of interesting reading.

“She cost you more.”
“I know,” said the trick. “How much?”
“You tell me,” she said, thinking he might be a cop setting her up. That kind of thing still happened whenever the religious authorities ran out of infidels to persecute.