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

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.

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

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

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.

I hope suffering don't exist.

Today's my birthday On mans scale 53 is a life more than 1/2 over. On the infinite scale of an eternal being I am just a cell of life that has forever to go!

Imagination is a place where a rational mind travels in time to meet it's god, "The Infinite Mind"!

Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ....."As distance always doesn't ensure solutions

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.

I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot