"Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?"

"The total annihilation of divine worship, which we are spreading through Europe. We should not be content with shattering scepters, we must smash idols forever. There has never been more than one step…"

"Increase of population was always good news to us. More people, more sales. Decrease of IQ was always good news to us. Less brains, more sales."

"I nodded. This was something that I really liked a lot about my mother and father. They were always thinking ahead so we didn’t make the same mistake twice."

"Where long series of incarnations have been followed, it has been found that some individuals progress from sub-race to sub-race very regularly, whereas others are more erratic, taking repeated incarn…"