Quotes from David Archer

Well, we live in a world that's gone crazy with technology, and some of that technology can be harnessed to do more than it's intended to do.

had been a constant source of recrimination and criticism. He measured all people against his own unattainably anal standard. It was a standard which was too pathetically low to be measured, but which through the microscope of his own small mind he saw as perfect. ?But Peter, unencumbered by morality, held nobody to any standard. He knew that where there was no good, there could be no standard.

Neil let out a groan. "Honey," he said, "how was your day? 'Oh, it was fine, dear,' Jenny would say. 'I just had to go out behind R&D and slit a couple of throats today, then I picked up Junior from daycare on the way home.'" He shook his head. "There we would be, your typical American family.

In that city, if people caught the faintest whiff that you were in trouble, that you were a victim, your friends disappeared faster than a bowl of punch at an AA convention.

There is no time in the mind,

She'd read somewhere that hunger was the best sauce of all;

cleaning lady! The gunk I got out of your carpet and kitchen counters? Grrr-oss!" Sam grinned. "We'll talk about it when I get there. Bye!" He called

Then you'll remember the motto of John Carter of Mars: 'I still live.' Those three simple words express the essence of man, don't you think? With those three words, Burroughs expressed the human condition, because as long as life exists—there is hope.

Come, Mr. Mason, you know as well as I do that the American Empire is in decline, and dear Mr. Biden is old and decrepit, and has no stomach for a fight. He

Sam was stunned. "A wheelchair? A wheelchair? What kinda cop you know goes around in a wheelchair? How

Cafés used to be unique places for unique minds, now they are standardized places for standardized minds.

in the end what they all had in common was that these were not people. They were consumers: units for the consumption of goods and the payment of revenue. The crime here, the monstrous crime, was not that Bill, or Tracy, or the twins, Grandpa or Aunty Peg were going to die a horrible death, it was not that children were going to be robbed of their parents, or parents robbed of their children. The crime, the heinous, monstrous crime, was that the American economy was going to be crippled

Without being a cop, Sam Prichard wasn't really all that sure who he was.

I shuddered and the wind threw a couple of wet, bronze leaves at my ankles. I kicked them off

One of the most interesting things I've discovered about human nature is how willing humans are to disbelieve evidence if it doesn't fit with their own personal beliefs and philosophies. Most people are not truly capable of believing in a doomsday scenario, simply because it's unthinkable to them.

You don't agonize over it, you simply decide whether action needs to be taken, and then you act on that decision. That's something we spend incredible amounts of time and money trying to teach to our students, and here you come along with it already hardwired into your Cybernet.

Fate whispers to the wolf; "you cannot withstand the storm" and the wolf whispers back, "I am the storm.

maybe we're goin' about this all the wrong way, tryin' to find dealers and trail 'em, follow the tracks up the ladder. There's something about this whole setup that smacks of serious organization, something big enough to hide in plain sight, know what I mean? If it's that well laid out, we can follow minions all day long, we're never gonna find the top guy, because they don't ever see the top guys.

Welcome to the dawn of Aquarius, where every thought is an identical, hexagonal section of the Hive Mind.

There is absolutely nothing certain in this world, Noah, other than the truth you see directly in front of your eyes at a given moment. Truth has a habit of mutating itself; it is always possible that, no matter what the evidence in front of you might suggest, there can be another explanation for any event you can imagine. All

I'd rather have one concrete plan and refine it by running through it over and over than try to have multiple plans and run the risk of confusing parts of them when it comes down to the wire.

Curiosity—actual curiosity—was one of the hallmarks of sentience and self-awareness

God puts us where He wants us when He wants us. What that means is that we will find ourselves in other people's lives when those people need us the most.

wealth is not found in banks, but in the heart. Oh, sure, having financial wealth can make life better in some ways, but the burdens that come with it—the weight of responsibility, the necessity of constant effort to maintain that wealth—they drain the joy from life. As for power, the man who has it is as much its slave as its master. The use of that power imposes obligations upon the one who uses it, and