It is as hugely irrelevant to us as the literary outpourings of a poet are to a bacterium living in his lower bowel. Indeed, to an even tinier mite l… - Matt Hughes

"I have a reputation for genius," I said, though I lowered my voice. "It can withstand some eccentricities."

"From within such a calcified culture, no change can be generated; the impetus for reform must arise from without. Hence, the external threat posed by Hunan Diath."
"Who does not exist," said Filidor.
"Who need not exist," said Gaskarth, "so long as the idea can do its work."

Persons who disguise themselves when they go out into the world rarely do so for innocent purposes. At best, they mean to pull some merry prank; all too often, they intend a considerably deeper mischief.