“What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?”

“There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.”

“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.”

“Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.”

“I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.”

“What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?”

“You know what happens when you keep a dog locked away from every living thing, except you visit once a day and kick the shit out of him?"Perreault laughed nervously. "Someone actually tried that?""What happens is, the dog's a social animal, and it gets so lonely it actually looks forward to the shit-kicking. It asks to be kicked. It begs.”