Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions — not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask.

Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.