Sean Chercover

“Man plans and God laughs.”

— Sean Chercover

“Correlation does not imply causation,”

— Sean Chercover

“A dog doesn’t understand mathematics, but that doesn’t mean mathematics doesn’t exist.”

— Sean Chercover

“Television is a possum with a tapeworm, she thought; always hungry and it’ll feed on any garbage.”

— Sean Chercover

“how he hated the word “homeland”; it sounded just one step shy of “fatherland”—”

— Sean Chercover

“But you better know now, it’s the way of life. Everything you love goes away in the end.”

— Sean Chercover

“there’s three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth. I can only give you mine.”

— Sean Chercover

“To beat your enemy, you must understand what your enemy wants.”

— Sean Chercover

“All that human energy, wasted, in response to the simple fact that we know we are going to die, and we don't…

— Sean Chercover

“What I believe is we’re able to push the boundaries of our knowledge only so long as we keep our focus on…

— Sean Chercover

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It was the third of Arthur C. Clarke’s three laws of prediction.”

— Sean Chercover

“It isn’t about miracles or proof or having God on speed dial. You want to be close to God? Reach down and…

— Sean Chercover

“It isn't about miracles or proof or having God on speed dial. You want to be close to God? Reach down and…

— Sean Chercover

“there’s gonna be a riot before this thing is over. A riot, or worse. Folks don’t realize how fragile the social order…

— Sean Chercover

“Throughout history, the men competing to shape the future had collected lost sheep to use as pawns in their game, cannon fodder…

— Sean Chercover

“many people, not just Americans, make the mistake of taking it neat. He explained how Scotch is made, saying, ‘Fer heaven’s sake,…

— Sean Chercover

“And truthfully, when microbiologists talk amongst ourselves, off the record after a few glasses of wine, the optimists admit their optimism is…

— Sean Chercover

“productivity meetings were just about the least productive thing ever devised by middle management, and that was saying plenty. Those corporate frat…

— Sean Chercover

“I’m humble enough to acknowledge that I don’t know the secrets of the universe. I’m no longer chasing faith. I’m chasing truth—and…

— Sean Chercover

“WAFFLE HOUSE Two words that spelled oasis across the Southland.”

— Sean Chercover

“As Albert Einstein said: The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

— Sean Chercover

“Paranoia might leave you loveless and alone, Raoul once said, but it’ll keep you alive. Paranoia is your best friend.”

— Sean Chercover

“Remember—there’s only one God, everything else is metaphor.”

— Sean Chercover

“Today is a good day to die. But I’ve decided to stay alive until tomorrow”

— Sean Chercover

“I don’t believe in God because there is one, I believe in God because there should be.”

— Sean Chercover

“The present is the future of the past—it has to be—but it doesn’t have to be the past of the future.”

— Sean Chercover

“Somewhere in the world someone is training harder than you. When you face him, who will live?”

— Sean Chercover

“Doesn’t matter if you run a barbershop, pharmacy, or gas station, remaining independent in today’s America is an uphill slog and the…

— Sean Chercover

“Look, there’s no debate among microbiologists—a pandemic is coming. Sooner or later one of these bugs is going to be stronger and…

— Sean Chercover

“Papa Legba was a prominent loa in voodoo mythology. Guardian of the Crossroads, facilitator of communication between the material and spirit worlds,”

— Sean Chercover

“at some point, we end up shifting focus to the freak show on the fringes of the story. And everybody loves a…

— Sean Chercover

“when the ethics of your profession conflict with your ethics as a human being, well, then there’s just something wrong with your…

— Sean Chercover

“that’s what religion is. A philosophy of coping. It may bring comfort to the dispossessed, but comfort isn’t good for the dispossessed.…

— Sean Chercover

“He said it would come down at exactly twenty-three minutes after midnight, and it did. A day is twenty-four hours. Twenty-three minutes…

— Sean Chercover

“look at the villains and con artists running for high office. And winning. They ain’t runnin’ as public servants, they’re runnin’ as…

— Sean Chercover

“you’re looking for absolute knowledge about the ultimate reality of the universe. I don’t have that knowledge. Nobody does. What I have…

— Sean Chercover

“the Song of Solomon. Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong…

— Sean Chercover

“There’s only one God—everything else is metaphor.’ Now, strip away all the metaphors, and what is the one single commandment common to…

— Sean Chercover

“There’s a story about a couple of Zen Buddhist monks. One day they leave the monastery and walk into town to buy…

— Sean Chercover

“Taking the metaphors literally gives them a free pass to duck out of the real heavy lifting.”

— Sean Chercover