Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.

It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives ... thank you.

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.