No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.

The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.

There's a right thing to do, Holden said. You don't have a right thing, friend, Miller said. You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

You're the predator right up until you're prey.

Too many dots, Miller said. Not enough lines.

No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.

No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.

If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.

Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.