"An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him."

“Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.”

Source : "Pope Francis Says He Would Baptise Aliens: 'Who Are We to Close Doors?'". www.independent.co.uk. May 13, 2014.

“Stop it, Mom, you're making me blush.”

“If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.”

“What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.”

“Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.”

“No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.”

“In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.”

Source : Stephen L. Carter (1993). “The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion”, Basic Books

“I'm just a loud Irish guy.”