"Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?"

"No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering…"

"Imagine being told that it hadn’t mattered whether the Christians or the Moors got Spain! I can still remember my sho…"

"The leaf that spreads in the sunlight is the only holiness there is. I haven’t found holiness in the faiths of mortal…"

"“So as we’ve seen, not one faith has ever lived up to its promises. The world has never become a paradise, quite the …"

"And what a clever guy this Harpole is, isn’t he? Awfully good at noticing all kinds of little unusual things about pe…"

"“Funny thing about those Middle Ages,” said Joseph. “They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they’re in Mod…"

"How could millennia-old superbeings be so boring?"

"I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience."

"I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation."