“If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?”

“You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other?""The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?”

“Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.”

“Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?”

“How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?”

“That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.”

“It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.”