When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.

She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.

Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? "What duck?" AH. SORRY.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.