Quotes from Andrew Mayne

We have our version. We even tell ourselves convincing little fictions that it's okay to hate those other people because they're the ones who are really filled with hate. We make ourselves judges.

And homicides in Chicago are responsible for fifty percent of the increase in the United States' murder rate in the last year. Do you think the problem is deep-dish pizza or that it's become a shitty place to live?

DNA wasn't a simple recipe book that could be readily understood.

know for a fact that if we did as many drug searches of rich white schools as we do poor black ones, there'd be an outcry about our "lack of discretion." It's tricky on both sides.

You have a judgmental face." "I'm a scientist. I look at everything this way.

Everything drains from my body. There's no thrill of being right. It's just an overwhelming sense of dread.

Pelicans are simply an ungrateful mouth on wings.

A man who believes that a convincing lie can shape the cosmos in a way he sees fit may not have a problem erasing one or two inconvenient barriers in his path. Obstacles that happen to be sitting in his private jet.

One of his best techniques was buying off the clerks that handled the procedural work for judges. We found numerous examples of major cases that were dismissed or postponed because a clerk lost evidence or changed filings, creating procedural errors.

I think it is more than chance. It also tells me that if we want to avoid going extinct, we have to realize we're already at war with an enemy that's master genetic engineering and is conducting trillions of experiments every second, figuring out new ways to kill us.

Cardiff thinks I'm tied up with them? I've half a mind to tell him to go fuck himself right now. Fortunately, the rational side of my brain keeps me from going all McPherson on him. I take a slow breath and put the regulator back in my mouth as I slip under the waves

But being manipulative isn't necessarily a mark of intelligence. I mean, have you ever met a child?" she asks rhetorically.

if nobody can contradict the story, then it's pseudoreal,

She couldn't decide if he was a bit mad or if the world moved too slowly for him. Perhaps a little of both.

Bayesian statistics?

You don't role-play if you hate people. You play these games if you don't know how to interact with others and are looking for a way to connect. The rules and routines of RPGs make it easy for even the most socially awkward person to spend a few hours in the company of other people without worrying about what to say.

I'm about to jump off the cliff of anxiety mountain.

Two percent of the population is sociopathic. They just don't feel the way you or I do about others. If you come in contact with fifty people in a day, one of them is a sociopath.

In space there's no way to ground an electric current. If you have stray voltage, it'll find a path, no matter what.

When you're a kid, you just assume your parents were always grown-up.

Forty." He throws the number out there for a moment. "That's how many people in an average football stadium have murdered someone in the last ten years.

When Europeans came to the Americas and witnessed Aztec sacrificial rituals, they were coming from a continent with practices that in many ways were equally barbaric, but because they understood the justifications of their own practices, they viewed them differently.

Just keep in mind, it was aware of us long before we were aware of it.

For me, at least, half of dealing with grief is trying to figure out what I'm supposed to show the outside world.