Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.