“The fact that many people overindulge, and lose themselves in excess, and make fools of themselves and act like idiots, is no reason for me to do these things. The reason for me to do these things is that I, too, am an idiot.”

“Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder. But certain realities have a way of making themselves felt, and debt is one of them.”

“I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.”

“My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser”

“Some idiotic things are well worth doing.”

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”

“The reasons why I do things are difficult for me to understand and difficult for me to explain.”

“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending, wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”

“And another reason to make sure we're not doing atrocious things at the slaughter plant is that if it is too easy to do something really atrocious to an animal; with the poor animal screaming and everything; the person who could do that might not have any problem torturing people. I remember one of the reasons that St. Thomas Aquinas said that we have to treat animals right is so that people themselves don't get corrupted.”

“You underestimate the ability of people to act like idiots.”