When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.