Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

An armed society is a polite society.

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.