I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.