Joel Varghese

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

“If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality