One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.

Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion.

You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.