"This place was not divine. It was enchanted, which was a different thing altogether."

"Nothing frightens a miser more than the prospect of not getting paid."

"“Have I come to a second Bedlam? Are you all mad here?” “Madness is the order of the day,” the lord replied. “Even Go…"

"“Were you not at the Holy City when the army of the faithful burst in? Did you not yourself partake in the slaughter …"

"Behind her, far away, filling the skies that were not of Earth, was the face of another, a mountainous Dark One who s…"

"So now the tale is done. What moral? There was in the abbey a learned man who insisted that all things have a greater…"

"“Christ and Satan!” “Swear by whomever you like,” laughed the King. “Why not Jupiter, Thor, Mithra, and Ahura-Mazda a…"

"I listened to all this with the dull incomprehension of a pig in the slaughterhouse overhearing the talk of two butch…"

"“One more thing I will tell you, the great secret I learned through my experience.” “What was that?” “Never listen to…"

"I lost my faith on a foreign shore, in the shade of the conscience tree. In the shade of the conscience tree, on a fo…"