With people, Moore suspected, no matter how noble the intent, a defect was unavoidable, a taint of politics. - George Alec Effinger

Isolation is nice," thought Brant as she drifted closer to sleep. "It's a shame you can't share it with anybody.

I shook my head ruefully. Police departments all over the world were identical in two respects: they all have a fondness for breaking your head open for little or no provocation, and they can’t see the simple truth if it’s lying in front of them naked with its legs spread. The police don’t enforce laws; they don’t even get busy until after the laws are broken. They solve crimes at a pitifully low rate of success. What the police are, to be honest, is a kind of secretarial pool that records the names of the victims and the statements of the witnesses. After enough time passes, they can safely shove this information to the back of the filing system to make room for more.

I believe that it is possible to overlegislate ourselves into a highly restrictive form of government.