Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.
Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.
Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.
TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.
Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.
Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.