The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.

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

Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.