"All around us everything was changing in the order of things we had fashioned for ourselves." Introduction, p. 3

"Yes; but you must wager. It is not optional. You are embarked." Book One, Chap. 1, p. 8

"You have to get killed sometimes but you can't cheat." Book One, Chap. 2, p. 56

"This is the book of an apostate. Those who fear God are forbidden to read it." Book One, Chap. 3, p. 62

"In the second week of October, two days after Yom Kippur, Michael entered the residential treatment center." Book One, Chap. 4, p. 93

"The enemy surrounds us. The evil forces of secularism are everywhere." Book Two, Chap. 7. p. 139

"A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is." Book Two, Chap. 8, p. 146

"I must know where you stand before I can give you smicha." Book Two, Chap. 9, p...