“There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.”

“Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.”

“I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be suckedinto something powerful and painful.”

“Following Jesus is not a perfect life of nonstop thrills. There are some boring and bad parts. But still there's something different about them, simply because I'm following Jesus. ”

“Magic doesn’t mean to earn something or to get something. Magic is the will power. You can grow crops, but you can’t create them. Difference is, one is the will power and the other is temptation. Magic selects the eligible but can’t give them the proper direction.”

“There's something aboard that thing, a dark and powerful figure. And it awaits the coming of something--something terrible.”