Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.