He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

Fate can be one mean god at times.

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.