“I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.”

“You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was ‘but we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?”

“It is in the desert and high places that religions are created. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.”