After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.

Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn.

There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more.

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.