But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

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

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

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.

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.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.