“[Hulga] looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
~ Flannery O’Connor, “Good Country People”

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
~Groucho Marx

“Where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.”
~ Jane Austen, Emma

“You are writing children’s books, you need to be a ruthless killer.”
~ J.K. Rowling, BBC Newsnight, 19 June 2003

“I’m not sure how wise it is to pass resolutions that functionally condemn the actions of Jesus (John 2; Luke 7:33-34; ) and Paul (1 Tim. 5:23). I’m also not sure it’s very wise to prohibit that which God has given as a gift (Deut. 14:26; Ps. 104:15).”
~ Justin Taylor, commenting on the SBC resolution on alcohol