Quotes from Randy Wayne White

warn us they're coming? You know, Guatemalan punks talking English because they figure we're so rich, we got lazy and stupid.

There are certain adolescents, usually female, who possess wisdom far in advance of age or explanation. That

generation of children grew up drinking DDT-laced milk and water and eating DDT-contaminated food. Unknown thousands of that generation are still suffering the effects.

decades, China had been quietly buying property—and loyalty—in third-world countries while the other major powers squabbled nose to nose.

seldom traveled. Not really. Travel was too damn unpredictable. Instead, they contrived daydreams. They chose template fictions that matched, or came close enough to, the vacation they wanted to describe to their friends back home.

society whose moral ideals inhibit its own defense is a society doomed to destruction by those predators it defines as immoral.

the unpredictability of women who, aside from decisions regarding men, were otherwise rational in their behavior.

mosquitoes have primitive eyes that don't recognize the color yellow.

Rage is fear untethered by caution.

The Russian had more hair on his eyebrows than his head, so looking him in the face was like confronting two cornered animals.

your shoulders. One square

The past is constructed of memory, the future of expectation

They don't need the facts because they already know the truth—their common sense has spared them the effort of investigation or thought.

Killing women and children at a bus stop or in a Nazi concentration camp—or at the federal building in Oklahoma City, for that matter—should be referred to as 'murder.' They aren't acts of war. They're acts of cowardice.

If we men were required to wear sized penis stockings outside our pants, our discussions of women's breasts would be markedly less frequent and our preferences more vaguely defined.

burning house; watched for the dark trousers and blue

momentum lost by any collision or impact is equal to the opposite momentum gained.

Work hard, pay your own way, and you'll never owe anyone anything but kindness.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

When data does not fit comfortably into a likely chain of events, I reassemble the data into a worst-case scenario. It is my way of establishing the parameters of possibility.

do not believe in large-scale conspiracies. If I ever meet more than three or four people who can actually keep a secret, then maybe I'll reconsider.

When the good ones, the hardworking hill climbers, are displaced for any reason—bad legislation, ghetto diffusion, or political leveraging—social sewage will flood in to fill the void. It

don't see the point in a useless emotional exercises.

Beauty is a genetic device: trickery that instigates competition.