Quotes from the Book

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
Whatever your gravity is when you get to the door, remember―the enemy's gate is down. If you step through your own door like you're out for a stroll, you're a big target and you deserve to get hit. With more than a flasher.
The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not,
You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the next move, to see where it's all going to lead.
We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.
He could just look at people and listen to them and suddenly he'd know things about them.
He did what he thought was right,
saying you don't know or care about God is the same as saying you believe he doesn't exist, because if you had even a hope that he existed, you would care very much.
He was getting to the point that he didn't understand why tax attorneys didn't just kill themselves.
There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.
And Americans always think international laws are for other people anyway,
Not that science is particularly pure, except compared to politics.

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