“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”

“Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.”

“It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.”

“We are split people. For myself, half of me wishes to sit quietly with legs crossed, letting the things that are beyond my control wash over me. But the other half wants to fight a holy war. Jihad!...”

“When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.”

“More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.”

“The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.”

“I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.”

“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important ...”