Paulos South Quotes

#1. The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Eugenia's mouth formed an O shape, her eyes wide and a little wet.
Now I had not only told her Santa wasn't real, I'd told her the Easter Bunny went on killing sprees to eat the children who didn't find his eggs.

Sierra Dean

#3. There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.

Jack Nicholson

#4. Happy isn't even a real idea," he said. "It's just like love. A reasonably skeptical person doesn't even know what it means.

Ethan Canin

#5. It's really not my authority that you need to worry about. It's the fact that I'm a homicidal bitch who's balancing on the knife-edge of 'insane'."
"Balancing?" snickered Jared.
"All right, maybe I fell off the edge some time ago." She shrugged. "It makes life more interesting.

Suzanne Wright

#6. I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can write. He's the best writer on that page, and I'd usually rather read him than others on that page I'm more likely to agree with.

Michael Tomasky

#7. But I care myself if I tell fibs; I never tell them unless there's something rather good to be gained.

Henry James