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

“Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given you two events in advance, because I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me. There are many things to think of. There is much story.”

“Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.”

“No one ever asks what causes heterosexuality because no one is interested in stopping it”

“-- What, then, does one experience of the You?-- Nothing at all. For one does not experience it.-- What, then, does one know of the You?-- Only everything. For one no longer knows particulars.”

“I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.”