I don't think it would actually make you happier to be told you were right about this," he said finally. "I don't want to be happy," Dahl said. "I ju… - John Scalzi

Harvey was not especially introspective, but this didn’t mean he was stupid. He was moral, within his lights; he understood the value of subtlety even if he wasn’t much for it himself, and one of the reasons he could get away with being loud and obnoxious was that he was a fair stick at strategy and logistics. Give him a job and he’d do it, usually in the most entropy-producing way possible, yes, but also in a way that achieved exactly the aim it was supposed to. One of Harvey’s guiding lights in terms of strategies was simplicity; all things being equal, Harvey preferred the course of action that let him get into the middle of things and then just buckle down. When asked about it, Harvey called it his Occam’s razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone’s ass was usually the correct one.

I have no idea what that means, Nick," Paulson said. "Talk normal human to me.

I guess I was just hoping there might be a way to do things other than the way that ends up with everyone getting killed.