“The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.”
“An hour ago on the sand-shore he has been looking at her as if she were the only being of any importance in the world. And now she was a nobody.”
“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.”
“I look back every now and then and think, I should have known. He was too perfect to be anything but evil.”
“There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. -- Huck Finn”
“If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.”