Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.

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.