The only thing that can effect a big change in personality is something that physically rewires the brain and/or alters the body's chemical milieu.

The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that there was potential here to go on and write an engaging story set in that world. So that's what I did. This probably ruins things both for the people who want small literary novels and for those who want action-packed epics, but anyway, it's what I wrote.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be — or to be indistinguishable from — self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.

Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?