If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.Collection: Ifs
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.Collection: Littles
No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.Collection: Wicked
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.Collection: Running
Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines.Collection: Lines
Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way.Collection: Taken
You're the predator right up until you're prey.Collection: Predator
Stars are better off without us.Collection: Stars
Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.Collection: Optimism
No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.Collection: Burritos
Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.Collection: Running
The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.Collection: Miracle
And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?Collection: Beer
Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.Collection: Soul
No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.Collection: Men