“People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.”

“No one believes what they're told. They believe what they uncover. What they dig up on their own. And the harder it is to find, the more they believe it when they do find it.”

“Rakkim would have loved to believed that another reason he wasn't convinced.”

“If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.”

“Faith was the most powerful force in the universe.”

“- Murder is a sin. It's a sin in Judaism, it's a sin in Christianity, it's a sin in Islam and every other- I'll decide what's a sin.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”