Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.
Terry PratchettA European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.
Terry PratchettAt such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.
Terry PratchettYou say that you people donโt burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but thatโs what true faith would mean, yโsee? Sacrificinโ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarinโ the truth of it, workinโ for it, breathinโ the soul of it. Thatโs religion. Anything else is just . . . is just beinโ nice. And a way of keepinโ in touch with the neighbors.
Terry Pratchett