“The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to whom who bids the highest in the currency of our desires.”

“It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.”

“The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.”

“The things that are priceless to my heart carry no currency where we are going.”

“The U.S. hundred is the international currency of bad shit, Hollis, and by the same token the number one target of counterfeiters.”

“By saying 'God sees into the heart' it denies the deepest and the highest desires of life and takes God for the enemy of life. The saint in whom God takes pleasure is the ideal castrate. Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.”