“(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.”
“They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.”
“The great threat we pose to each other is a fruit of our sublime ability to generalize.”
“In war, government and their armies were a threat, but it was so often the neighbors who damned or saved you”
“It's not enough just to buy condoms, Cassidy; you have to use them.”
“I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more money and it doesn’t take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book nobody buys.”