Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.

A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.

Teamwork," Koteks snarled, "is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.

But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.