What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.