" This is a world of lies and always has been. We live in a time of even greater deceptions than in centuries past. So much of what we're told, what we see on TV, what we read in the newspapers or on the Internet, is invented to conceal the truth, protect the wicked, increase the power of those who already have more power than all the kings of history combined."

"I don't disagree," she said. "But what does that have to do with the price of a pistol? "

― Dean Koontz , The Forbidden Door (Jane Hawk, #4)