"It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected."
"I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me."
"I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane."
"So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?"
"Apocalypse is a frame of mind."[Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope."
"There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward."