"Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work. "
— Jeff Lindsay

"Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.'"
— Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park)

"It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear."
— Michael Crichton

"Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase."
— Michael Crichton (The Lost World)

""I'm a very neat monster." ~Dexter Morgan "
— Jeff Lindsay (Darkly Dreaming Dexter)

"What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. Next question."
— Michael Crichton (The Lost World)

"God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.
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— Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park)

"Sometimes women scare the hell out of me."
— Michael Crichton (Disclosure)

"They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences."
— Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park)

"Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties."
— Michael Crichton (The Lost World)