I choose to believe in God because it makes things better.

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you.

Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...

By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.