The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.

So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

Life is a walk in the fog. Most people don't know that. They're fooled by the sunlight into thinking they can see what's ahead. But it's the reason they are forever getting lost or falling into ditches or committing matrimony.