“I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.”

“The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.”

“Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale… Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.”

“Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.”

“They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.”

“Regret without change is just nonsense.”

“Better, the perfect, easy discipline of the swallows dip and swoop, without east or west.”

“Yes! The world would be nonsense, the whole creation an absurdity without immortality.”

“I have loved colours, and not flowers;
Their motion, not the swallows wings;
And wasted more than half my hours
Without the comradeship of things.”

“[In the Qur’an] faith is still defined the same as in the Bible, a belief in what is not seen. This explains why the remaining scripture relies on the logical fallacy of the circular argument routing back to the assumed conclusion. There is nothing that is indicated by evidence, nothing that is verifiably correct, just empty assertions of impossible nonsense that you’re supposed to swallow without question simply because it says so.”