“God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone?”

“I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it -- it wan't Will's. It was mine.”

“Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves.God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate.”

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

“There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.”

“Every country's different.All that happy talk you hear about understanding one anotherand people everywhere being basically the same, it's all a bunchof crap. Everybody's different. And if you don't realize that, you'renever going to experience anything truly new.”