"I'm sure Rachel never heard this saying, but someone once said, 'all that's needed for the bad guys to win is for the good guys to do nothing.' Not a bad way to live." Even if somewhere out there, Edmund Burke is rolling is grave over this awful misquotation.

"In baseball, it's called an umpire. And she would be great at it, once I explained the rules." A pause. "Which take a while."