If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.