For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.