In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.