Quotes from Sean Chercover

It isn't about miracles or proof or having God on speed dial. You want to be close to God? Reach down and help your neighbor. Faith without works is dead...

All that human energy, wasted, in response to the simple fact that we know we are going to die, and we don't know what happens after, and we're afraid that this life is all there is.

Paranoia might leave you loveless and alone, Raoul once said, but it'll keep you alive. Paranoia is your best friend.

there's three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth. I can only give you mine.

Throughout history, the men competing to shape the future had collected lost sheep to use as pawns in their game, cannon fodder in their wars.

Remember—there's only one God, everything else is metaphor.

at some point, we end up shifting focus to the freak show on the fringes of the story. And everybody loves a freak show. Then we start reporting the freak shows, even when there's no real story attached.

finally smiled for real. "Look, you're my doubting

The future ain't what it used to be, but it's coming right at us, regardless.

you're looking for absolute knowledge about the ultimate reality of the universe. I don't have that knowledge. Nobody does. What I have is faith. And what I do know is, people have an inborn need to believe in the spirit, and ritual helps sustain that belief.

There's only one God—everything else is metaphor.' Now, strip away all the metaphors, and what is the one single commandment common to every decent religion ever known?" "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." "Exactly. Every religion in human history has had a variation of it, but why do so few people live by it? Because of all the other crap, because of the metaphors.

Taking the metaphors literally gives them a free pass to duck out of the real heavy lifting.

It isn't about miracles or proof or having God on speed dial. You want to be close to God? Reach down and help your neighbor. Faith without works is dead…and maybe in the end, works is all that matters.

The present is the future of the past—it has to be—but it doesn't have to be the past of the future.

when the ethics of your profession conflict with your ethics as a human being, well, then there's just something wrong with your profession

Television is a possum with a tapeworm, she thought; always hungry and it'll feed on any garbage.

Correlation does not imply causation,

I don't believe in God because there is one, I believe in God because there should be.

As Albert Einstein said: The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

To beat your enemy, you must understand what your enemy wants.

the Song of Solomon. Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If one offered for love all the wealth of one's house, it would be utterly scorned.

productivity meetings were just about the least productive thing ever devised by middle management, and that was saying plenty. Those corporate frat boys were master time-wasters. Their other major skills included ass-covering, blame-shifting, and brownnosing.

But you better know now, it's the way of life. Everything you love goes away in the end.

Somewhere in the world someone is training harder than you. When you face him, who will live?