I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?" -"Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.

If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!