Quotes from Chris McKinney

The dead are apparitions that both haunt and guide us. And maybe they've earned it. Most times, they can teach us our own history better than any book.

That's the funny thing about The Money. They'll gift each other artifact and libation equal to most people's annual income. But anyone who ain't them's gotta work for it.

Or maybe when you have the sheer force of will to keep doing something over and over again until you get it right, winning feels more like relief than anything else.

I think back to my father, and the fact that the dead are the only extinguished lights we can never really see again.

She added that despite all the advances in neuroscience, psychology wasn't going anywhere either. I nodded. It would be around for as long as there are people who wanted to babble about their problems. So, forever.

Because the older I get, the less recognizable I am to myself.

Without the numbers to the right of pi, pi just becomes three,

if I can't tell the difference between a random painting and a masterpiece, maybe the random painting is a masterpiece waiting to be recognized.

Maybe the only two good things about getting older is the waning of want and no fear of loneliness.

You're the first," she said. "The first what?" "The first person who's declined the opportunity to see the asteroid that might destroy humanity." I shrugged. "I've seen humanity destroy itself enough times already.

That's how you know you're The Money—when you build so many rooms it's impossible to fill them, no matter how much you procreate

Maybe a person doesn't truly feel alive until he fights to stay that way.

a presidential election was a way to reassure us how stupid America is every four years. And every single time, America has passed the test.

Like when she told me in all of human history, three things never went out of style. Graffiti, keep-out signs, and statues of ourselves. She'd use this rule to explain human nature: we desecrate in protest, we're afraid of people taking our stuff, and we worship ourselves.

Fooling the world, Brum would say, has always been possible, because people think they're smarter than they really are. A confidence that, ironically, stems from their fear of seeming stupid.

in all of human history, three things never went out of style. Graffiti, keep-out signs, and statues of ourselves.