“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”

“You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?”

“Sometimes God dillies and dallies, and sometimes he just points at you and tells you to hang up your jock.”

“Sometimes God dillies and dallies,’ Steve said, ‘and sometimes he just points at you and tells you to hang up your jock.”

“It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.”

“God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.”

“It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.”