I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.

It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.