“They mistake their star, these papery godfolk.”

“Poor bastards," Cole said, his gaze still on the stars. "They must get pretty tired of watching us make the same damn mistakes all the time.”

“One piece at a time,' the angel hissed, dangling something papery and drenched in dark liquid over Hank's whirling vision.Hank felt his eyes widen. His skin!”

“How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!”

“There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.”

“It has never been a mistake to commit a mistake, but a mistake to repeat a mistake”