We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.

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.