By their works we shall know them. Always assuming that they exist. - Michael Kurland

Well, what that means is that it doesn't happen very often. Now it's happened to one small group of people—us—twice in a short time. That would seem to indicate that," he ticked a finger, "something's seriously out of whack in general, or," he ticked the next finger, "someone's out to get us in particular; which I feel is quite unlikely. At times in my paranoid past I would have assumed that the Universe is teaming up to get me, but now I'm more objective and I don't believe that. I think it, but I don't believe it.

I don't want to color my facts with my suppositions," he said. "My facts are the results of good, reliable magic. My suppositions are just that—suppositions—and may be totally wrong.

I mistrust these artificial things," O'Malley said. "Food doesn't grow surrounded by tinfoil.