“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil. Before the settlers, before the Indians... the evil was there... waiting.”

“America isn't young, you know. It's ancient and evil. With aluminum siding.”

“When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.”

“Hers was an evil-sounding chuckle that Anna loved. The sort of chortle Dorothy might have heard shortly before all hell broke loose in the land of Oz”

“The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were no God. Before there can be a hole in a uniform, there must be a uniform; before there is death, there must be life; before there is error, there must be truth; before there is a crime, there must be liberty and law; before there is a war, there must be peace; before there is a devil, there must be a God, rebellion against whom made the devil.”

“The old man laughed. Now that I did find unsettling. They always laugh right before they kill you. After the long explanation of their evil deeds and right before they kill you. Always. They must have been too rushed for explanations.”