Robert Galbraith

Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.

Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?

How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.

How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?

He had never been able to understand the assumption of intimacy fans felt with those they had never met.

Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed.