When a species fixates on the supernatural, it ceases to mature. - James Morrow

The Sermon on the Mount—it never ends for you, does it? If somebody kicks your right buttock, turn the other cheek.

Francis realized he was afflicted with what his father used to term “an erection of the curiosity organ.”

Francis had always been ecumenical in his atheism. He was as prepared to disbelieve in this Tolca character as he was to disbelieve in Yahweh, Jesus, Buddha, Vishnu, or any of the other words for what his father used to call “forcing yourself to misperceive the obvious.”