“I didn't answer, but, please—nothing is obvious with boys. For such simple creatures, they are quite baffling.”

“I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.”

“If you consider this subject unnecessary for Christians, then please quit the field; you and I have nothing in common, for I consider it vital.”

“Paduk and all the rest wrote on steadily, but Krug's failure was complete, a baffling and hideous disaster, for he had been busy becoming an elderly man instead of learning the simple but now unobtainable passages which they, mere boys, had memorized.”

“If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined.”

“What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.”