There was lots of apocalyptic talk before it was introduced.

You bastard, he thought, almost affectionately, watching the minuscule protoplasm fluttering on the slide. You dirty little bastard.

I never really talk about the other goalies. I'll have lots of time when I'm retired to talk about the other goalies.

Faith in the real annihilation of the world - … a world antagonistic to the wishes of the Christian is therefore a phenomenon belonging to the inmost essence of Christianity[.]

...he was a scream wrapped up in straw, a little, weak, vicious thing gnashing inside a monstrous facade...

I'll talk to him tonight.