Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.