Doc Webster's eyes rolled briefly, like loaded dice, and came up snake eyes. - Spider Robinson

"Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy." Stated another way: "Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other."

Callahan dried his big meaty hands on his apron and cleared his throat with a sound like a bulldozer in pain.

I was putting together a picture of a life that would have depressed anyone with the sensitivity of a rhino. Back when I had first seen her, when her features were alive, she had looked sensitive. Or had that been a trick of the juice?