The Reverend Pullman sat on the opposite side of the bench, wearing clerical garb and one of those unctuous smiles that proclaims a monopoly on truth. - Jack McDevitt

I'm not optimistic," he said. "The issue clearly flies in the face of the First Amendment. People have a right to tell kids whatever they want about religion."
"Do they have a right to push human sacrifice?"
"Of course not, Mac. But this isn't human sacrifice. It's just a church school."
"I'm not sure the effect isn't similar.

He’d grown a mustache since Randall had last seen him. It was hard to understand why: He looked devious enough without it.

“Alyx,” she said, “you're going to be a legend.”
“I already am, Captain,” she said.