“Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing,....”

“Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.”

“When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.”

“Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?”

“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”

“Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.”

“People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?”

“Religion turned some folks belligerent.”

“Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing,....”

“The dead weren’t scary. It was the living you had to watch out for.”