Michael Kurland

"It had been a long time ago, when life had been less complex. Or, perhaps, it had only seemed less complex."

"“I mistrust these artificial things,” O’Malley said. “Food doesn’t grow surrounded by tinfoil."

"By their works we shall know them. Always assuming that they exist."

"It was obvious that insufficient education was a serious handicap."

"“Yours is a minority opinion, Major, as I suppose you know,” Lord Darcy told him. “But it is one which should be heard more often. It is a question that deserves to be debated and discussed, and not s…"

"“I don’t want to color my facts with my suppositions,” he said. “My facts are the results of good, reliable magic. My suppositions are just that—suppositions—and may be totally wrong."

"Everyone leaned over the map and examined it with interest. Here was a tangible thing to look at, to make them feel that something was being accomplished. Everything’s under control, Lord Darcy said w…"

"The pleasure of receiving an accolade is somewhat diluted by the problem of living up to it."