“Instead of coconut yam kootu, why not boiled beef tongue with a mustard sauce?”“That sounds non-veg.”

“A germ of religious exaltation, no bigger than a mustard seed.”

“Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.”

“There are no grounds for going beyond a scientific explanation of reality and no sound reason for believing anything but our sense experience. A clear intellect, close attention to detail and a little scientific knowledge will expose religion as superstitious bosh. God does not exist. -- Why tolerate darkness? Everything is here and clear, if only we look carefully.”

“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”

“My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.”

“Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?”