Quotes from Andrew Mayne

Richard Feynman would say, "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

brilliance is a kind of binary thing. You either got it or you don't. If you do, a 130 IQ and a 170 aren't that different, so long as you know how to apply what you got.

CIA hired dirtbags to drop guns into South America. Those same dirtbags used their planes and contacts to bring cocaine back. It's not the same as saying the CIA controlled the drug trade, but it had the same effect.

There's nothing unusual about it, but the ordinary is where the extraordinary likes to hide.

Other animals, mainly nonmammals, are indifferent. If a predator snatches a child, their evolutionary calculus tells them they're lucky it wasn't them and life goes on.

You can try hitting that reset button, but all it's going to do is change the names of the players, not their actions.

When no amount of evidence can convince you that your worldview might be inaccurate, then we've exited the realm of reason and entered religious territory.

the vast majority of cops are good people doing a very difficult job. Even the assholes I've had to deal with were looking out for everyone else.

It's like the old stories

feel a little numb myself. I could be in that same position one day. I sometimes joke that I don't need children to look after me when I get older, because I'll have Amazon Prime.

Often it's to suss you out and decide if you're hiding something and how you hide things.

I've learned that you never win a battle of wills with a crazy person because they don't even know there's a battle.

A scientist is someone trying to see order in chaos.

On the plus side, this really is probably the most baller way anyone could possibly die. So there's that.

There are even genes that correlate with charisma. Some of them overcompensate for a lack of internal empathy. They make you feel like they care more than anyone else while you're nothing to them.

Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini.

You're one cold motherfucker. At least Mathis doesn't make you feel like shit." "That's so you don't see the knife coming. I'm honest.

understand guilt. I know pain. The only antidote I have is brutal honesty.

My gut says to like him. The rational part of my brain tells me to pay attention to the obvious.

a hurricane.

The whole reason this place exists is because of the broken homes these kids fall in and out of. This lady is doing her best to give them a stable environment.

How the fuck did you get away?" "Fear, man. Fear. It's your best friend." He pauses for a moment. "But you know that. Don't you?

Watch yourself. Don't think just because you survived one monster you'll survive the next. I'm alive because I kept running from them. Not to them.

And even though it kills me when you're not looking at me, or it feels that way, I love the fact that you're still trying to put things together—to make them better. And I'd never sacrifice that, even if it meant your eyes were always on me.