“With no gods to pray to, Susan prayed to her father.”

“I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.”

“A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of the kid's cowlick. The gunslinger snorted laughter-the first in gods knew how long-and set the fire and went after water.”

“He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.”

“Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.”

“Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented.”

“What you write down sometimes leaves you forever, like old photographs left in the bright sun, fading to nothing but white. I pray for that sort of release.”