"Very far. Very...divergent." He looks up, and his eyes have the same focus they do when he's looking at The Shadow's bones.

"You may as well not believe in the rain. It falls. Nothing but dictators and politicians care about belief back home. You just - you learn how to deal with the more common kind back home, unless you are the sort of helpless person who can't also manage balancing a checkbook and putting on pants every day."