“...You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls....”

“...maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks...”

“...telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution...”

“...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...”

“...you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...”

“...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..”

“...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something of mine...”