“It is a sin to write this.”

“It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. We have broken the laws. The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!”

“It is against the sin of forgiveness that I wanted to warn you.”

“I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.”

“In the eyes of his contemporaries, he was a man who had committed the one unforgivable sin; he was proud of his wealth.”

“If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.”

“writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it.”