“Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.”

“It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.”

“Times are changing, and we must change with them. The twenty-first-century church does and will continually face radical change and much uncertainity with undefined problems that require organizatonal models and leadership qualities and competencies far different from those that were successful in the twentieth century.”

“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.”

“The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.”

“Everyone thinks they know so goddamned much about everything and no one knows fuck all about anything.”