insightful

Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers_ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

The most upsetting thing about Society__ attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.

.....we find ourselves inhabitants of the last few living cells of a dying god

Phil Needle stood in the parking lot, suddenly grasping that this was so, that nothing is lost in a world utterly mapped, that nothing is rogue with everything cross-pollinated, as the shouts on the beach lured him across the street to the sand.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Chance favors the connected mind.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.

You only lose what you cling to.

It is romantic, yes,_ agreed Hercule Poirot. __t is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun_.

There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.