Quotes from Randy Wayne White

WEIRDNESS IS ONLY WEIRD IF YOU FIGHT IT.

Emotion, any emotion, was a symptom of perceived reality, not reality itself.

A PBR wasn't just a brand of blue-collar beer, it was also someone who was not dominated by neurosis, ambition, or ego. It was a person who was relatively honest, rational, and reasonable most of the time; a man or woman who had a general sense of his or her own worth and limitations, who acknowledged the worth of others, who demonstrated a sense of humor, and didn't take him- or herself too seriously.

The reason we remember song lyrics more easily than poetry is that music is stored in the cleaner, mathematical side of our brains. Poetry is shoveled into the cluttered, creative side.

Sooner or later, most of us will listen to a physician speak the name of our killer.

Shit-oh-dear. It was an expression used by his pal Tomlinson to denote any unexpected quandary that should be dealt with but was beyond control.

FORD'S LAB was an old house on pilings in the shallows of Dinkin's Bay, just down from the marina

Studies have been done on people who believe in conspiracies. Clinical paranoia, plus nonspecific rage, are two common components. Crazy and angry: a dangerous combination.

riding in an airboat is like being vaulted onto a plain of ice, an overpowered airplane propeller strapped to your butt.

stone. I wanted to try fish gravy—a recipe I'd gotten in Panama—so I was adding spices to flour when Tomlinson reappeared. He carried two photos

People used to making decisions sometimes like it when they're told what to do.

A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral.

I had a werewolf morning. Awoke with a rum hangover, imagined blood on the walls, and prayed to god it was mine.

I have no choice but to believe in free will" Tomlinson

Humanity has a limited biological capacity for change but an unlimited capacity for spiritual change. The only human institution incapable of evolving spiritually is a cemetery." S.M. Tomlinson, One Fathom Above Sea Level

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

Racism requires lots and lots of dumb emotion, plus a dose of stupidity.

I think if you're standing on thin ice anyway, why not dance?

Tomlinson often refers to her as living proof of his own private theory: The world's most beautiful women are always well into their thirties, forties, or fifties because only the experience of living and prevailing day after day can provide the necessary emotional texture and depth of understanding that Tomlinson's definition of "beauty" requires.

If you'd spent your life abusing drugs, like a normal person, your skills as a liar would be more highly evolved.

Anger is a common derivative of fear.

Smith, parts of your story don't match up with what we found

IF MY CLIENTS offer a business

When you have wholeheartedly accepted one vision of reality, it is very difficult to have that reality challenged, then replaced by another.