“No other foreskin could have caused such trouble.”

“THAT NO ONE knows what happened to Jesus’s foreskin is particularly interesting because there used to be upwards of a dozen in circulation.”

“The goyim are a curious people," Malpesh once said to me, before he had discovered who and what I was. "Not curious that they want to know things," he clarified, "curious that they don't.”

“It's perhaps significant that God declares His completed Creation "very good" and that Adam is an afterthought, his goodness unspecified.”

“That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?”

“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”

“None of it seemed very real, but I suppose that's the trouble withhistory. It's the one thing we have to make up for ourselves.”