Stephen knew I first served the Church by stocking reliquaries—transmuting unused bits of rotting paupers into the toes and teeth of saints. - Andy Duncan

“I don’t allow officers to mince words with me, Colonel. You must speak freely and frankly.”
“General, they are ignoramuses.”
“I believe the phrase you were groping for, Colonel, is goddamn worthless ignoramuses, but you’re definitely on the right track.

Mr. Davis was a Senator, you know, before he became a professional Southerner, and a Senator can out-talk any man—can make you think a horse-chestnut is a chestnut horse.

I asked Formosus how his trial was proceeding thus far.
Less and less of God, and more and more of man
It is of God, as well, I replied. It is mad and pointless, and inefficient. It is godlike.