Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.

Life is short, but the years are long.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Make money, lose money - who cares? The idea is to enjoy it.

Specialisation is for insects!

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.