Reviews

“Despite what the last fifty years of American policy would suggest, ‘They hit us so we’re hitting back’ is not a military strategy. I was taught that successful wars are waged for measurable goals. What’s the goal here? I’d really like to know. What does victory look like?”

“Rutherford tried to distract himself from the odor. He thought about how he would describe the smell later. Imagine how your hands would smell if you bought fifty pounds of past-due-date ground beef and paid for it entirely with pennies.”

“If Nikola Tesla was Writing a Self-Help Book, These are the Six Things You Would Learn:
#6. Avoid being abducted by an evil being who’s bent on destroying the multiverse. Self-explanatory.”

“I’d point out that it’s impossible to build something without destroying something else. Every statue represents a ruined piece of pristine, unused clay, which in turn represents a hole dug in the ground somewhere.”

“That, Brad soon learned, was the essence of the entertainment industry, an endlessly neurotic blind date arranged by an ever-shifting army of 10 percent yentas.”