"I can tell you truths. I cannot give you understanding. For how can one give what one does not possess? I have always told the truth."

"It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow.""Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight.""That’s not insight. That’s a personal guarantee."

"He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities."

"Nevertheless, liking and disliking do not constitute proof any more than hearsay does."