It Is Safest To Shut

One Of The Many Burdens Of The Person Professing Christianity Has Always Been The Odium Likely To Be Heaped Upon Him By Fellow Christians Quick To Smell Out, Denounce And Punish Fraud, Hypocrisy And General Unworthiness Among Those Who Assert The Faith. In Ruder Days, Disputes About What Constituted A Fully Qualified Christian Often Led To Sordid Quarrels In Which The Disputants Tortured, Burned And Hanged Each Other In The Conviction That Torture, Burning And Hanging Were Christian Things To Do.

Journalist: A Person With Nothing On His Mind And The Power To Express It.

What [man Landing On The Moon] Is Doing Up There Is Indulging His Obsession With The Impossible. The Impossible Infuriates And Tantalizes Him. Show Him An Impossible Job And He Will Reduce It To A Possibility So Trite That Eventually It Bores Him.

There Was Scarcely A Woman Alive, It Seemed, Who Could Resist The Urge To Haul Men Down Onto Beds, Car Seats, Kitchen Floors, Dining-room Tables, Park Grass, Parlor Sofas, Or Packing Crates, Entwine Warm Thighs Around Them, And Pant In Ecstasy.

In America, It Is Sport That Is The Opiate Of The Masses.