dancer from the dance

"you know, when people who were once religious no longer believe in God, they never really change, they just go on, hunting for the ecstatic food, trying to satisfy the hunger. You must admit this search took Malone places he never would have gone otherwise, and who knows where it has taken him now?
Because he dreamed with the best of us, my dear, dreamed even more outlandish dreams - and then when they failed him, he left. In silence, for what can one say?"