No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.