Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.

London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.

Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.