A lot of things seem to be happening, all at once," I told Chester. "Enemy action," he replied. "Huh?" "That's what you told me once. An old Army mot… - Michael Kurland

There’s more leg room in first class, to be sure, but there’s more poetry in second class—and more honesty in third.

Life and the life processes are but an unimportant part of the whole that is the universe; intelligence and the designs of intelligence but a pattern drawn on sand. And yet that pattern which is life can pull into its weave much that is not of life, and give it a reason, a function, and a purpose that transcends the life that made it, in all physical measures of mass, distance, and duration.
So is entropy thwarted in some small measure, in random pockets throughout the universe.

He could have assigned this part of the job to another, but it was not in his conception of his duties to do so. The shorter the chain, the less chance for a broken link.