My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.