The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.

Marriage is work, Cora, I'm not going to lie. It’s glorious some days and not so much on others.

You cannot be a modern association without a contemporary board.

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

Donald Trump's got to do some big changes, because what he was voted on. But when you think about how to do it, it would take massive expertise, which his people, believe me, do not have.

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

Don't be a salad. Be the best god damn broccoli you can ever be.

If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.