"“The True Word. Once every quarter, once every new-style month, I preach it.” “The True Word on what? Everybody’s got…"

"Tiglathpileser was a human, it’s rumored. And Caligula. So were a whole host of twentieth-century tyrants. So presuma…"

"What was reprehensible in being fearful in the presence of the unknown?"

"God could hardly damn me for a coward, great cosmic exemplar of laissez-faire that he is."

"I have thought a little about a telepathic community, and I have decided that it would most likely create either a th…"

"What motivates you, then? Please don’t tell me altruism. I am not quite so gullible as that."

"Coercion is the tool of the desperate."

"Who but a madman would grapple with mountains?"

"“Nature has its own logic, or so brother Peter tells us.” “The logic of chance—amoral and sometimes inaccurate.” “Wel…"

"His foot always got caught in that wide, loose stirrup: his mouth."