Whoop-de-do," said Ram. "What?" "I'm celebrating." "Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable. "Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in me?" "I have no confidence in you, Ram," said the expendable. "Well, thanks." "You're welcome.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.

Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

Withholding a decision is a decision.

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.