Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

I don't have a strong interest in history.