“I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.”

“At that second exhibition I had to peer into them and look through the grayed color and wonder what it would be like not gray and then wonder what the forms would be like not crabbed by the figures and trees.”

“Moses : God has given us these fifteen— (after dropping one of the tablets) Oy! Ten — ten commandments!”

“If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.”

“A lot of times I wonder what Adam would have written songs about. -Appalachian Melody.”

“I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.”

“Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.”

“I find it hard to swallow that I have only ten times more genes than those lowly bacteria in my gut. I had always liked the fact that they have ten thousand times less DNA than I did — that felt about right — but a factor of ten was carrying democracy a bit too far.”

“The Episcopals don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages — it's much like The New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments — or "Moses' talking points" — but hasten to add that they're not exactly "carved in stone."”

“Interviewer says "Maybe you can give us some chores that have to be done like Hercules had to do ten of them so maybe we could do ten of them"”