“Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.”

“The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.”

“...for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”

“You're walking into the garden little girl with your belly just rumblin' for an apple." "My belief happen to be other than your own but I've always thought the Garden of Eden story would have been much better if Eve wasn't portrayed as such a mindless character manipulated by suggestion. I mean if she were a little bolder more resourceful and confident she and Adam might've had snake for dinner instead.”

“And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.”

“I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.”