"Reprieved. For a little while. He went back to his papers, hating what he was doing. As he worked, he muttered to himself. 'I'm an engineer, dammit. If I'd wanted to spend all my time with legal briefs or sitting in a courtroom, I'd have been a lawyer. Or a mass murderer.'" - Barry Price at the San Joaquin Nuclear Project, January: Interlude, Page 20

"Have at 'em, Harry. Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for. And the taxpayer's cause is about as lost as they come." - George Christopher, March: Interludes, Page 68

"The Hammer of God was coming to punish the decadent and the willful." - Henry Armitage, March: Two, Page 80

"The points to remember are these. First, the odds against any solid part of the Hamner-Brown hitting are literally astronomical. Over these distances, the Devil himself couldn't hit a target as small as Earth...