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“I ignore religions,” said Brawne Lamia. “I do not succumb to them.”
IN THE BEGINNING was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.
“Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.”
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.”
Most of us, I hope, have had some child or spouse or friend like Beatrice, someone who by his very nature, his seemingly innate goodness and intelligence, makes us uncomfortably conscious of our lies when we lie.
After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.
