It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

I drink and smoke and I am two hundred percent fit.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

...to win by one is enough.

Expert knowledge is limited knowledge

Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.