You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

Predisposition is not predestination.

But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can't know everything. You're not supposed to. This isn't a history book. It's just the world. It's a messy place.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.