My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.

My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.