“Before September 11, the skinny, jittery black guy made security think one thing: drug mule. But after the attacks, security only cared about bombs. So it was the Arab guys, the Puerto Ricans and I...”

“Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.”

“Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.”

“Im always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions dont satisfy. Monsters satisfy, absolutely.”

“Human beings are no damn good, he said. We are even worse than animals. We like ...He trailed off, cleared his throat, but his voice hardly reached a whisper.We like monsters, he said.”

“War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.”

“War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it.”

“How can our words ever truly be our own? Since we started growing all we've been taught is to care how we represent our persona and how we should communicate appropriately and how we portrait ourse...”