“You, Stan, are covered with dirt and leaves.''''I just applied for a job as a tree,'' I said. It made so little sense, he didn't even bother responding.”

“It's easy to pretend you don't care about anything, Stan. It's also cowardly.”

“Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat!----You Killed Wesley Payne”

“How do you learn to write? You sit your ass down in a chair, in front of a laptop, for ten years. Period.”

“Finding out what people don’t want you to know may be the scariest, most addictive thing of all.”

“War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.”

“Because the brain models our sense of self as just another instance of a thing, it is easy for us to project qualities that we only know of from our own minds into other objects. This allows us to imagine intelligence in a rock, a tree, an animal or even a politician.”