“Tonight, as you eat, reflect if you can: there are children starving in the world, starving in numbers larger than the mind can easily hold, up in the big numbers where an error of a million here, a million there, can be forgiven. It may be uncomfortable for you to reflect upon this or it may not, but still, you will eat.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“Value’ has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human—‘market value’ is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average personal values, all of which must be quantitively different or trade would be impossible.”
― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“I was a drunk. You have to be richer than I was to be an alcoholic.”
― The Fifth Elephant
― The Fifth Elephant
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