“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
“In this study, we will be attempting to answer the pivotal question: How does God want to be worshipped? How we want to worship God is irrelevant.”
“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.”
“The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest?”