Clergyman's

“I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama’s boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.”
– Ayelet Waldman

“Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.”
– Edward Thorndike