Quotes from Andrew Mayne

I'm not the same man who went into the woods to find Joe Vik. The experience changed me. I became something different.

The only thing intelligent people hate almost as much as making mistakes is being wrong.

I save him my diatribe about people with bullshit EdDs and PsyDs that I've run into in academia who couldn't pass a fifth-grade science exam all insisting that they be addressed with the same reverence as the head of oncology at a research hospital.

the only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. arthur c. clark

What are you going to use?" "Common sense?

I committed murder. That doesn't weigh heavily on me. I believe I made the morally correct choice.

This tension between the instinctive animal and the reasoning human who discounts anything that doesn't fit into narrow sense categories is fascinating to me.

Does it matter that the executioner likes his job?

You know about the frog and the pot of boiling water?" "That's a myth. They hop out. They always hop out.

You have to be able to compartmentalize all that. Your problem is you only have one compartment.

asked us to imagine a toolbox and inside it pairs of glasses that affect what you see and what you think. With each one comes a certain knowledge set.

This is some next-level Lance Armstrong bionic shit going on.

Theory of Mind to practical use—understanding how others see the world.

What I mean is that if I'm making up something in my head using places and situations I already know, then it goes smoothly.

FUCK THAT NOISE. I'M GOING TO RIP HIM TO PIECES.

Each one helps us understand that our points of view are shaped by what we see, what we've been told, and, lastly, how we process it all.

Shaman today basically means a drug dealer who's read Carlos Castaneda.

Oh. Well, you've got options. Your looks aren't going anywhere," she replies, as she fiddles with her controls. "Thanks. I was hoping to find someone who loves me for my mind." "Oh, that's adorable. That's not the way it works, darlin'. Men have to fall in love with you despite all that.

Is death like the event horizon of a black hole, where you fall forever?

Joe Vik knew what he was. He saw that he was a monster in human skin and maintained that facade for as long as he could.

Made you break character, asshole.

This is what scares me—the idea of becoming a monster without ever realizing it.

And you're sucking up all our oxygen in here for what reason?

We just used grenades and MP7s," says Hughes. "That doesn't exactly sound humane," replies Kell. "Those crocodiles were all members of ISIS. My commander told me so.