“Men who turn their faith into a business owe all of us a steak dinner now and then.”

“Our faith was a flickering flame.”

“The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.”

“Eyewitness News' is a clever plot to convince us that all the important events are happening somewhere else, to other people, at the same time we're literally dying in our beds.”

“This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.”

“She's everything I wanted when I was young and everything I distrust now that I'm not.”

“Reliving his degradation had struck some spark in him and it was glowing now like a blown-on coal.”