Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

Most things in here don't react well to bullets.