"Haven't you heard the expression, 'He brings out the worst in me?'
Well, how long before the worst sticks?"
Laney Dracos
"To protect and serve the nation, you first have to protect and serve
yourself."
Garner Grimstead
"You come into a new office. You find out how the game is played,
and you play it. If you refuse to play, it's not because you're more
ethical, or smarter, it's simply because, maybe you're a little dull."
Babs Easton
On Monday mornings apprentice brown-nosers prowl the halls for me,
alert as predators having sniffed a wound, a bleeding in the air.
The Whistleblower's Lament
"So wise, so young, do never live long."
Basil Hunsecker
"Wear a rubber band around your wrist. If you feel worry
coming on, just snap yourself."
Babs Easton
"You mean to tell me that in your broad travels from Kenosha to D.C.
you haven't figured out that sneaky shits rule the universe?"
Laney Dracos
"White trash slut!"
Nancy Reagan
"I wish to share my outrage at what has transpired, and in doing so,
reveal to the world those conditions which allow a tiny group of
individuals to engage in legal murder. "
Dr. Bo Hammer
The despised whistleblowers were left hanging by their thumbs, their
fingers plugging a thousand dykes from St. Croix to Anchorage, their
conscience tested in a war of nips and bites spread thin by time,
apathy, and a Gulag psychology.
C 21
"Stupid, dangerous things. They're here, on the loose ... all around
us."
Laney Dracos
The shadows of gods roaming the horizon symbolize not only the
western Lamb and Satan, but all the Elder Gods of the Hebrews,
Hittites, Greeks, Babylonians and so forth--ancient super beings
awakened from hibernation and now preparing to depart for more
gullible worlds, humiliated beyond endurance by the more powerful
and televised idols of the Reagan White House.
C 24
At this point, for Manny Eden, the sobering ratio of life-to-time
weighed heavily against the two bosses while the act of murder became
a moral and Hamlet-like obligation.
C 26
"His name was Chain E., or Changey, or Chicanery, or something like
that. He was standing there, outside the booth, watching us like a
buzzard, talking sideways out of his mouth."
Deejah Thoris
