Quotes from Bob Mayer

The FedEx truck backed into the driveway with an irritating beeping. The team was ready, combat gear on, locked, and loaded.

Cadets would swear an oath—the very first law the First Congress enacted, an indication of its importance to the young country—to defend the Constitution, not any party or individual.

They're homicide bombers," Eagle said. "I hate when they call them suicide bombers. If they were suicide bombers, they'd go out into the middle of the desert and blow themselves up. Don't take others with you.

There's nothing that can change it and it's fucked.

sputtering light

As an author and publisher I work in the entertainment business, which is an oxymoron. Entertainment runs on emotion, while business runs on logic.

what-iffing.

babbled at the

That's your business and your past," Kane said. "A person's past is their own to share or not share.

d.c. is the nation's capital. It also leads the country in murder

Even though the CIA had acknowledged the place existed (it was on Google Earth now for frak's sake), that didn't mean they were holding an open house any time soon.

think Nikita Khrushchev, surprisingly enough, summed up nuclear war quite well. He said the survivors would envy the dead.

Faulkener's "specials.

His ward upstairs was full of whining old military retirees too afraid to die.

Authors produce the books. Readers consume the books.  Everyone else is in the middle.  And therefore, very, very nervous. 

Chase realized that when someone he was drinking with was telling him that he was drinking too much and that he needed to get his act together, then he was bellying out on the bottom.

scrawny neck.

Too many people are locked into a limited worldview because their own character keeps them from seeing the true nature of the world around them.

Eighty percent of the world's opium supply comes from Afghanistan. And production has been rising steadily since we went in there. One thing the Taliban did do was crush the opium warlords in the name of Islam. Now that we're in charge, in the name of democracy, they're flourishing again.

Nothing at all in there about the Time Patrol?" the President asked. "No, ma'am." "That's not good," the President said. The Keep had no opinion on that. That wasn't her job. She was a tiny woman, slender, with short black hair.

A man can think he's invincible, but Father Time has a way of putting him in his place.

You can market your book, but you can't sell your book. The only book we've ever seen being successfully "sold" by selling methods is the Encyclopedia.

Tacitus said: 'Chief among the forces affecting folly is lust for power, the most flagrant of all the passions.' Once one treads in the halls of power

You always have a choice. It's just that you have to pay the price that goes along with your choice.