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A drug doesn’t make you creative as much as it stops you from not being creative. It lets out what’s inside you.
“Which frightens you more? That each of us harbors in our soul the potential for evil, to do such wicked things as murder others? Or that real evil, the kind you came here to find, comes from outside and that we’re safe as long as we remember we’re fallible and don’t invite it in?”
Science is good for specific questions. It’s not so good at seeing elephants.
Always tell the truth. When in doubt, you can say you don’t recall. If you’re afraid you might incriminate yourself, shut up. If you didn’t do something wrong, be honest. Even if it makes you look bad. If you want to nail someone to the wall and the evidence is lacking, you use the investigation process to trap them in a lie.
Grief, pain and desire are universal.
The average person has about 150 stable friends they keep in contact with. When you include old classmates and relatives, the number increases to around 250. An average couple may have 400 unique acquaintances in all. These are people you might have over for dinner or otherwise spend time with socially.
Law, like God, is only real when people believe in it. When you know the truth—that it’s really just the good and bad we do to each other that really matters—you see things differently.”
An interesting argume t.
your house cat may be infecting you with a virus that makes you hoard things, including more cats.
It’s a childish worldview to choose what to believe and what not to in the face of the evidence. Playing peekaboo with the facts doesn’t make them disappear.
“Your ear is more than a funnel for sound. It shapes sound and changes it as it goes through the cartilage. It’s how we can tell whether something is above or below us, and not just to what side. We actually hear in three dimensions. Even with one ear.
“There was a Soviet researcher named Chistovich who discovered that if you played people’s voices back to them with a slight delay, it basically shuts down their ability to talk. It kind of overloads the brain.”
All you need is a flat device, like a dinner plate, aimed at the person. They’d be the only one who heard it.”
The bullet shield on the lectern.
“The difference between a wolf and a sheep is that a sheep will stand by and watch a wolf devour its own lambs. If you threaten a wolf’s pup, it’ll rip your throat out. Wolves are foul, vicious creatures. But it’s better to be a wolf pup than a dead lamb. Now good night.”
