I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter

Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different story.

Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.

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.

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.