Being on the "Hold" is the technological equivalent of purgatory. — Michael Crichton

Sanderson laughed. "There's no problem," he said. "Yet. I've got a pretty tough old neck. I can keep it stuck out a while longer."

In a sense that is a part of the training: surgeons are lonely men.

Leland Weston: "Never take a position unless you are certain it can be defended any onslaught. That may sound like good advice to a general, but then, a courtroom is nothing more then a very civilized war."