- Miriam: You know, my mother disapproves more and more of the books you bring. She blames you for putting ideas into my head.
- Paul Morel: Does she think heaven frowns on ideas? Your mother breathes religion through her nostrils!
- Miriam: Do you think that's wrong?
- Paul Morel: It's not religious just to be religious! I think a crow is religious as it sails across the sky. It's showing the glory of God but it doesn't know it. God doesn't know things, he is things.