"Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of authority turned."
"There were all sorts of ways to petition the Great God, but they depend largely on how much you could afford, which was right and proper and exactly how things should be. After all, those who had achieved success in the world clearly had done it with the approval of the Great God, because it was impossible to believe that they had managed it with His disapproval."
"There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed."
"'Where there is punishment, there is always a crime,' said Vorbis. 'Somethings the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God.'"
"'If you spend your whole time thinking about the universe, you tend to forget the less important bits of it. Like your pants. And ninety-nine out of a hundred ideas they come up with are totally useless.'"
"He thought: the worst thing about Vorbis isn't that he's evil, but that he makes good people do evil. He turns people into things like himself. You can't help it. You catch it off him."
"'Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.'"
"'If you muck up people's minds just because you want them to believe in you, what they do it all your fault!'"
"Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings."
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