“Sometimes life is irreverent, and you accidentally discover you are a party to irreverence, and it's hard to know what to do.”
“You’ve always called me irreverent. You’ve branded me irreverent. In my mind you invented irreverent.”
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
“It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.”
“Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you. You don't think it's irreverent, do you? But then, you're not a minister.”
“Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.”