“To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)”

“All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.”

“The key to excellent report writing' he said between chews, 'is to take every bit of passion out of it. Use an extra heaping portion of superflously extraneous tautological redundancies in order to make it mind-numbingly boring. So that when one's superior officers read it, they zone out and start skimming and maybe don't notice the fact that one has been spinning one's wheels since the body turned up and hasn't solved a goddamn thing.”

“Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.”

“Sleep. The ultimate resistance”

“The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.”

“Her basic disposition was a good deal sunnier than mine. But I was a better faker.”