“He had to grow his own NCOs.”

“The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.”

“You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.”

“People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.”

“Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.”

“A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.”

“Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick successio...”

“Safety is largely an illusion, and panic knows this.”

“It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.”

“The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.”

“I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.”

“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important ...”