Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the children or the grandchildren or the great-grandchildren of the people who wouldn't leave in the first place, and because of all the business about selective breeding and regressive genes and so on, it means that all the people now at the party are either absolutely fanatical partygoers, or gibbering idiots, or, more and more frequently, both.