Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank, ” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

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Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.

Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

Keep moving!” “Bea’s arguing with the floor.

Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.

I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.

You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

It's not his job, the president's, to pick winners and losers, nor to pass judgment on anybody.

I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.