To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place...and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since.

I am on an expense account that would blow your mind.

Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry.

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.