Careless is stupid, he snarled at himself, and stupid can be fatal. - Robert Asprin

But—as Kit and Sven had been so fond of saying—the Universe didn’t give beans for “fair.” It simply was. You got it right or paid the price.

Skeeter just couldn’t figure out what was so horrible about taking a good, long, clear-eyed look at one’s past and facing whatever one found in it. Making up the past to fit whatever idea some politically correct group wanted to pass off as reality this week seemed a lot more dangerous to him than facing brutal facts.

Skeeter thought dark, vile thoughts at bureaus and the bureauc-rats that ran ’em.