[Thelma] "...You make your own punishments in life, I honest to God believe that. You get exactly what you deserve. God sees to it." - John Updike

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we’re dead we’re dead?

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

When Rabbit first began to drive the road was full of old fogeys going too slow and now it seems nothing but kids in a hell of a hurry, pushing. Let 'em by, is his motto. Maybe they'll kill themselves on a telephone pole in the next mile. He hopes so.