Quotes from David Archer

Where other people will see obstacles, even blank walls, you'll soon start to see pathways you can use to get where you want to go. It's awesome.

After almost ten years as a Denver cop, Sam was sick of seeing what humanity was really capable of. He

smart people work, elegant people have smart people work for them. Gallin

Contentedness comes from an awareness of security.

home, I've been cleaning, and you need to fire your cleaning lady! The gunk I got out of your carpet and kitchen counters? Grrr-oss!" Sam grinned.

Before fighting," she said, "we learn pain. Only once we learn how to control pain, can we overcome our fear of it. Once we overcome fear, we can learn to fight freely without the crippling weight of apprehension. That is when we will move on to fighting.

The stock market crash of '29 did more damage to this country than either of the World Wars or the Cold War, and that was triggered by uncertainty and chaos.

They want to subject society and the economy to a prolonged period of stress and fear, right?

Again, that didn't matter much to Eduardo. A substantial number of his customers were in that same business, which suited him fine, since that meant they could afford the ridiculous prices he had to charge just to stay afloat. He had seen more than a few of them having private conversations with John the gringo, and though he hadn't seen money change hands, he knew without a

One of the things I've learned over the years by observing human nature is that anger will almost always cause you to make mistakes.

Sometimes she wondered about lung cancer, but on some basic, primal level she believed that she and any cancers that might grow in her system were one and the same being, and they would do her no harm. ?It was an idle, amusing thought

Next out of the car

He stared at me like he wanted to shoot me. It happens to some young men when you give them a uniform.

will probably fall apart while they try to decide who's going to care of business in his absence.

a village that was probably depressing in peacetime and now looked about as much fun as Sweden on the first Monday in January.

when she contemplated the world situation she was aware that her mind would expand and become vast in three dimensions, and she could think years ahead, contemplating hundreds of moves as though she were observing a gigantic, global chessboard. When she planned, she planned sometimes decades in advance.

and turned back to his book, but something kept eating at him. When he realized he had read the same paragraph four times and still didn't know what it said, he decided it was time to solve the mystery.

Triaminotrinitrobenzene

No. My electronics run on two hundred tiny betavoltaic diamond batteries made from radioactive carbon-14. My physical form will wear out long before they ever run out of power, in about six thousand years.

way through the back entry to the detectives' division. There weren't so many people there that day, and it seemed like a lot of them were avoiding the place, just staying away as much as they could. He could understand that. After almost ten years as a Denver

With so many people, democracy is impossible, and corruption is so easy.

He appears to hit the office when he feels inspired. Spending a few hours working heatedly before the creative impulse evaporates and he leaves the study.

Vipassana involves genuinely looking at who and what you are, actually seeing the real self instead of the one we imagine ourselves to be. It means facing every fear, every unsated desire, every area where we just don't know a part of ourselves, and then releasing any claim on them. It's been shown to be effective in treating depression, anxiety, panic, just about every emotional disorder there is, and it does so by removing the importance of our emotions from our lives.

Sometimes you have to look at the greater good, no matter what the consequences to yourself might be.