Human beings are no damn good, ” he said. “We are even worse than animals. We like ...”He trailed off, cleared his throat, but his voice hardly reached a whisper.“We like monsters, ” he said.

I’m always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions don’t satisfy. Monsters satisfy, absolutely.

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.

And the heart sounds like a sour conch, calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic, scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:the sea reports sonorouslyon its languid shadows, its green poppies.

Envy is a buzz killer."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Today, [cyber security] is totally questioned. People don't even know if we have the capability that we're supposed to have when you look at what's going on with other countries.

I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.

I'm Allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse. I could be allergic to beer.

The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.

I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together.

I never do anything normal anyway. I just get other people to do it now.