Cell

by Stephen King

he’s not grossed out by the maggots boiling in a dead cat’s eyes…just before he leans over and blows his groceries.

for every Michelangelo there’s a Marquis de Sade, for every Gandhi an Eichmann, for every Martin Luther King an Osama bin Laden. Leave it at this: man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.”

with a teacher’s natural assumptions: lecturing was his responsibility, interruption his privilege.