People swindle themselves out of Salvation with great regularity.

“I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there…”

“Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to belie…”

“You killed them, Reuben. You killed them in their sins! You terminated their de…”

“In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glas…”