“You expect us to believe the damnedest things.”

“There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.”

“It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.”

“That's the damnedest story I think I've ever heard. It's so unbelievable, I actually believe it.”

“There are two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of wheel fortune, when you least expected it.”

“The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.”