People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

“…We were born vampires.""I thought you became –""— vampires by being bitten? De…”

“It was no use getting angry with Wullie; he lived in a Wullie-shaped world of h…”

“He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had a…”

“At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, …”