Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them