I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

Love is tied to truth.

You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.