The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.

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.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

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.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.