No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Too many dots, Miller said. Not enough lines.

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

Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.

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

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