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You’re like a priest who awakens one day and realizes that his god has been replaced by a cardboard cut-out, and he’s no longer able to ignore his own disbelief. And, like the priest, you’ve sacrificed all hope of a normal life on the altar of something you no longer believe in.

Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches, and getting involved in it only leads to misery and dissatisfaction.

“Freedom?” The word tastes bitter. “What’s freedom ever done for me? Seems to me I’ve been free almost all my life, but what has it gotten me? Really?”

She’s silent for only a moment. “Ask not what it’s gotten you, kid. Ask what it’s saved you from.”

No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy, and time is the ultimate opponent.

The number one crime in any age: offending the money.

Most police work boils down to minimizing the impact on society of stupidity; of the remainder, the overwhelming majority is about malice and deliberate evil, but it’s still almost all stupid.

In my experience, the best way to deal with such people is to politely agree with everything they say, then ignore them.

You know there’s no advantage to be gained by murdering idiots—it doesn’t teach the idiot anything and it might give onlookers the idea that you take them seriously.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I’d never have time to do anything else.

Can I remember— “I remember lots,” I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

I’m not going to make the mistake of appealing to your patriotism: It’s a deflating currency these days, and an ambiguous one. But I would like to put a word in for ethics, fair play, and enlightened self-interest.