"Blaine sometimes wished he lived in a culture where everything wasn’t everybody’s business."

"But that (i.e., colonialism) was only half the story, he reminded himself wearily. What about the government corrupti…"

"As it was, deformed and made mad by his hellish life, he had become what prophets had probably always been: not fraud…"

"A coldness had come over Blaine in the hot, windy, smoky air. It was a chill that never quite left you after it had g…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"

"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."

"Hadn't he been blowing kisses to Earth millions of years before I was born?"