The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.