I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

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.

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.