“What matters,” he said earnestly, “is the display of skill, not the manners of the audience.” - Robert Silverberg

You can make no meaningful evaluations of the universe without the confidence that you are seeing it clearly.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Deliamber shrugged. “Such things are never fairly distributed. What makes you think that only the guilty are punished?”
“The Divine—”
“Why do you think the Divine is fair? In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is balanced with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that’s in the long run. We must live in the short run, and matters are often unjust there. The compensating forces of the universe make all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.”