“You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament.”

“The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.”

“The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of the first century at the latest--though most scholars would put most of them earlier than that.”

“The Old Testament is actually pretty raunchy. You might enjoy it.”

“How young can you die of old age?”

“I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wakeup letter.”

“[Mani] deleted as interpolations all texts in the New Testament that assumed either the order and goodness of matter or the inspiration and authority of the Old Testament. Otherwise he thought his expurgated New Testament a sound book.”