Location 1204:

But Chains could be disappointed. Oh, yes. On the steps of the temple he could marshal his mysterious powers to sway passersby, to plead logically or sermonize furiously until they parted with hard-earned coins, and in his tutelage he focused those same powers on Locke until it seemed that Chains’ disappointment was a rebuke worse than a beating.

Location 4201:

"I don’t expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls."