A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.

A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.

Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter.

Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow it, but once it's inside you it's too late, and it triggers, blowing up. And it's your specific inner beliefs and faulty arguments that trigger a satire bomb. If your arguments work, the bomb doesn't trigger, it doesn't need to.

Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once