If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.
How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?
I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.
The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.