“Are you interested in science?” “Of course I am. Who isn’t?” — Fredric Brown

Strangely, he wasn’t scared at all. He was even more coldly calm, calmly analytical. And he knew that he would have to be if he was to stand a chance to win this war. If he was to win it, his mind would have to be his major weapon; firearms might win a battle, but never the war.

The cat didn’t answer, except possibly by not answering.

Her life, except for reading, had been dull—but it had not been in vain.