If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.
Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.
Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.