“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
“When God made man she was practicing.”
“Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.”
“Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.”
“The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.”
“Everything is made to perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought. The wonder of anything is that it was made in the first place. What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?”