- “The Prophet may know how his own biography's going to end — but I can scarcely fathom how I'm going to start it.”
- ― Ed Gaines[src]
Ed Gaines was a writer in Columbia commissioned to write Father Comstock's official biography. He was at first thrilled by the prospect of easy money, but later worried over how to write the book, given the lack of information on Comstock's past before his baptism.