He was still having trouble readjusting. Wars were something you studied, not something that actually happened. - Robert A. Heinlein

For three hundred years the race had glazed windows. Then they shut themselves up in little air-conditioned boxes and stared at silly television pictures instead. One might as well be on Luna.

Poddy’s greatest weakness—the really soft place in her head, she’s not too stupid otherwise—is her almost total inability to grasp that some people are as bad as they are. Evil. Poddy never has understood evil. Naughtiness is about as far as her imagination reaches.

I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people—and parasites.