I didn't realize I would be maybe researching quotes from Voltaire and Mussolini before this was over,

Let me introduce you to Mussolini.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.

I tell our players a lot about some of those guys. I don't know if they realize the tradition. Maybe if they see it in the paper, it will mean a lot more to them.

You are very harsh.'
'I have seen the world.