"It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it."
"How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion."
"Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper."
"A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know."
"The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job."
"You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight."
"He had to grow his own NCOs."
"He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius."
"A commander's pride got his soldiers dead."
"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."
"The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within."
"Not every story started off big enough to notice."
"They loved their country largely because they controlled it."