Her libido blazed to life. She smiled, impressed by the party-crashing shamelessness of sex, its willingness to show up anywhere—a funeral, a sermon,… - James Morrow

Actually, the answer's quite simple." Two red eyes floated in the mist.
"Really? Tell me. Why does God allow evil?" The red eyes vanished, leaving only the lantern and the night. "Because power corrupts," said Wyvern's disembodied voice. "And absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Oh, Robespierre, Robespierre, was the triumph of inadvertence over intention ever so total?

The problem is, only a few people get to be scientists. You see the dilemma? Given the choice between a truth they can appreciate and a lie they can live, most people will take you-know-what.