“Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”

“Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.”

“You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.”

“Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting nature, peoples who through their rituals were identified with the gods.”

“How could I ever trust a man who's been as good a spy as you have?”

“The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.”