There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. — Isaac Asimov

“Fifty years,” I hackneyed, “is a long time.”

“Not when you’re looking back at them,” she said. “You wonder how they vanished so quickly.”

I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.

Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.