It was a scream straight from the toad buried at the base of the brain, that ancient reptile that wants everything at once, delivered to its feet and… - Michael Swanwick

A man thinks with his dick," Jimmy said, embarrassed. "That's why his friends have to look out for him.

Now why on Earth would you tell him a thing like that?"
"Because it's true."
Sbrulius laughed. "That, dear Faust, is the single worst argument you could have raised. Many things are true. Few are proper. Fewer still are desirable.

What you propose to do today is to bring civilization to a lawless corner of the world. I know that you claim more modest ambitions. But when the protection of law is extended to the innocent and weak, that is civilization. Now I hold that in the natural state, there are only two kinds of people in the world—the men with guns, and the victims. And the one kind feeds off the other.