…as indifferent to the meaning and central absurdity of the situation as swallows in a cathedral. - Barry N. Malzberg

"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons."

There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.

Great recrimination demands a large subject, will invent one if it does not exist.