When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

There are two competing philosophies in Wool: one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive, and the other one is that everyone should live completely freely and happily and everything will sort itself out.

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

I'm coming for you. I'm coming home, I'm coming to clean