What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.

Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.

Things are different from what I thought. They're much worse.