“Nothing but sunrise and sunsetting Men fighting the things that are- Birthgiving and bloodlettingAnd a drunk god snoring afar.”

“In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.”

“Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?”

“If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.”

“You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.”

“...I know there are a number of things you know, probably too many things you know--too many, I say, not because any kind of knowledge has the capacity to be bad in itself, but rather because certain kinds of knowledge, particularly those kinds we often describe as arcane, can, by way of their very arcanity, serve to obscure the knowledge-bearer's understanding of the mundane.”

“I wish we had the technology to fight God on an equal basis. To beard him in his den. To fight back for all of the injustices heaped on humanity. To allow him to alter his smug arrogance or be blown to hell.”