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Just driving around looking for him is not going to help. We might as well go back and wait on the porch for news as drive around. You're only going to see yards that're neglected and filled with old cars out there. They could kidnap an elephant from the zoo and be dressed like circus clowns with it in the basement and you'd drive past without noticing anything unusual.

People looked at a knife a lot differently than they'd look at stunners. A knife can get someone's attention when you want it.

Dick kept his eyes on people like a gunfighter stepping up from a poker table to scrape winnings into his hat.

It's not a stair step, Hogan,' he'd said. 'It's a step from a cliff. You can't take a small step over the edge of a cliff, all there is – is the one big one.

The spear's purpose is clear. Mine is clear. And yours is. You're the reason it makes sense, because I'm only interested in saving the world because you're in it. Of course, He knows that.

All the normal ways that you might know someone, what they liked for lunch, their hobbies, their interests, the people they couldn't stand—all the normal data points people constantly, unconsciously collect, none of those data points can predict how someone might react to 'I've decided to try saving the world by stabbing the President with my magic spear'. That's pretty much going to be a gamble every time.

He could filter the dangerous ones from the talkers in a few minutes of conversation, like a terrorist Turing test.

The creek was South Indian Creek. When the settlers moved in, they liked the Indian's names better than they liked the Indians.

Jon prepared himself for the end of his life, in fourteen more rounds.