- Ray Chardas: A comet is a lonely thing. In the chaos of the beginning, when what was hot and everywhere became cold enough to be round and planetary, there were still unused balls of dust and ice. The gravity of the planets expelled their brethren like a shower of snowballs into deep space. A cloud of primordial snowballs are out there, surrounding us in their loneliness.
- Ray Chardas: I don't believe in God.
- Dave Shipman: That's going to change.
- Ray Chardas: God is something men make up to fill their holes.
- Dave Shipman: You could use a few holes filled.
- Ray Chardas: And you don't?
- Dave Shipman: Of course, I could.
- Ray Chardas: Well, God hasn't helped you.
- Dave Shipman: If I didn't believe in God, my hole would be so big you could see right through me.