"I asked Formosus how his trial was proceeding thus far. Less and less of God, and more and more of man It is of God, …"

"“Ain’t my business,” I said. Like always, I was waiting to see how it was. “That’s right, John, it ain’t your busines…"

"Max, you are a melodrama with no audience and a cast of one!"

"She didn’t look around as I slammed the front door and locked it, just like I promised I’d do—cept I was outside the …"

"I knew this way well. It was the track to the praying ground, where are the colored folks on that part of St. Helena …"

"Mr. Davis was a Senator, you know, before he became a professional Southerner, and a Senator can out-talk any man—can…"

"People will say bout anything. That don’t mean I have to believe it. What I see with my own eyes, that I believe."

"Stephen knew I first served the Church by stocking reliquaries—transmuting unused bits of rotting paupers into the to…"

"“I don’t allow officers to mince words with me, Colonel. You must speak freely and frankly.” “General, they are ignor…"

"I went, shouted louder and louder, tried to clear my mind so that, when necessary, I could act without thinking, act …"