“It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.”

“At the very least he should have to suffer somehow, right? I mean, months of being sick, being hormonal, being fat, being so desperately horny and then wanting to chop off Brandt's hand or his dick if either so much as touched me again.”

“With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.”

“Being happily and successfully married is generally not so much a matter of marrying the right person as it is being the right person.”

“And the feeling I had was not of wanting her so much as being surrounded by her, blundering inside her life without having moved.”

“I know that I am not always right to the perception of some, but I am not daunted of being wrong. That's the effectiveness of confidence.”