'Her people had no gods, only devils - which answer just as good a purpose among

the ignorant and superstitious as do gods among the educated and superstitious.'

- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Ant Men

"It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy they must first make mad.

In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy they must first hand the equivalent

of a stick with a fizzling fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side.

It's more interesting, and it doesn't take so long."

--Terry Pratchett

All things dull and ugly, all creatures short and squat;

All things rude and nasty, the Lord God made the lot.

Each little snake that poisons, each little wasp that stings

He made their brutish venom, He made their horrid wings.

All things sick and cancerous, all evil great and small

All things foul and dangerous, the Lord God made them all.

Each nasty little hornet, each beastly little squid.

Who made the spiky urchin? Who made the shark? He did.

All things scabbed and ulcerous, all pox both great and small,

Putrid, foul and gangrenous, The Lord God made them all. Amen.

-- Monty Python

Homer: "You wouldn't think so, yet here we are."