J. Mulrooney > Quotes

“And he told Stink about a saint he had tempted a thousand generations ago. Satan had mocked the Enemy’s ridiculous claim of omnipotence. “Does God have the power to make a rock so big that he cannot move it?” Satan asked. The saint looked at him. “Yes,” he said. “And then He would pick it up.”
― J. Mulrooney, The Day Immanuel Kant was Late: Philosophical Fables, Pious Tales, and Other Stories

“He is looking down into the toilet bowl. He sees a bright shiny red ball, about the size of his fist, covered with blood and bobbing jauntily in the yellowed water. It throbs in time
with Ernest’s pulse. It is his heart.”
― J. Mulrooney, The Day Immanuel Kant was Late: Philosophical Fables, Pious Tales, and Other Stories

“He had been naïve, he realized: in those days he still had the idea that people would avoid Hell if you let them. Now he knew better. People will find their own way to Hell even if you beat them with a stick to go the other way.”
― J. Mulrooney, An Equation of Almost Infinite Complexity

“For these were the days when Time was still the horizon of beauty and had not yet begun its slow inexorable destructions.”
― J. Mulrooney, The Day Immanuel Kant was Late: Philosophical Fables, Pious Tales, and Other Stories

“He might mention something about a seed growing into a tree or the sun rising after it sets, but in just the sort of way that made you stop and say, "Heavy duty.”
― J. Mulrooney, An Equation of Almost Infinite Complexity

“Remember, I come from a family of atheists. In fact, a family of Catholic atheists. The kind who believe you have to be punished for your sins even if there is no God. My folks should actually be Unitarians, the church specifically designed for atheists with children.”
― J. Mulrooney, An Equation of Almost Infinite Complexity