It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.