I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.