"He knows all too well that what you usually get from patting yourself on your own back is a dislocated shoulder."

"It was one thing to pretend to be respectable; it was another entirely to be respectable."

"...he did not fear death, he feared dying and believed that knowledge of the difference between the two was the true wellspring of courage."

"Believing in something in the abstract is not the same is having it dangled in front of you."

"Once he had been the kind of man who said nothing, rather than lie; but now he said everything he thought, which is not necessarily more honest."

"...in science you may proceed by logic but you begin with a hunch."

"No one will ask the victor what is true."

"The truth is always too late."

"Truth is never simple. Only half truths are simple."

"Belief is for children. Facts are for men."

"Things get tricky if you interfere. When you interfere with the world, the world interferes with you."

"The dead get deader, you know, as every trace of their existence is expunged."

"Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know."

"Good advice was good advice. No matter how unlikely its source."

"I have never believed in gods, in universal good or absolute evil. I have only ever believed that there is what works and what doesn't. All the rest is smoke and mirrors, trickery to manipulate grunts like me."

"...living in the past was just another way of dying in the present."

"That's all we really are in this universe. Monkeys with a space program."

Technically we are apes with a space program. -- Ed.

"It was the funny business you didn't expect that always got you in the end."

"That's who wins, who hates most. And is more afraid. Every time."

"Dreams are free; but realizing them has a price."