Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure

by Michael Chabon

Men could be broken more terribly than he had ever imagined; but they could also be repaired.

All the evil in the world derives from the actions of men acting in a mass against other masses of men.”

She had always found a paradox in the crime of blasphemy for it seemed to her that any God who could be discountenanced by the words of human beings was by definition not worthy of reverence,