Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

I span the entire geek spectrum.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.