Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

I say, let's learn more and then speculate.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.