#scholarship

"The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap."

"...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected"from collapsing. (p. 21)"

"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."

"They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!"

"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."