[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and...

Doakes had a first name! It was Albert – had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.

If you’d told me even a year before…that I’d wind up whispering my sins in the confessional or on my knees saying the rosary, I would’ve laughed myself cockeyed. More likely pastime?Pole dancer. International spy....

Even though I dislike being kicked by others, I do enjoy the feeling of kicking others

I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.