Right before bed, I spend twenty minutes in this place. Then I can sleep." "You mean you simply sit here, staring at everybody's pain? All you do is … - James Morrow

It doesn't derive from any sort of biology," snapped Augustine. "It derives from sound reasoning and the Book of Genesis. 'In Adam's Fall, we sinned all.'"
"Through Adam's shlong, our race went wrong," replied Saperstein, jeering. "I'm sorry, Your Grace, but it just won't wash, either scientifically or theologically.

When I destroyed my unwanted children, it was murder. When Yahweh did the same, it was eugenics. Do you approve of the universe, Ham?

I wish more English teachers helped their students engage the classics at the level of raw delight, instead of putting them on the scent of symbols. A novel is not a cryptogram.