Sweetie, if I’ve learned anything during my ten years at sea, it’s this. Never confuse your captain with God. - James Morrow

Being God, I must choose My words carefully. People, I’ve noticed, tend to hang on to My every remark. It gets annoying, this servile and sycophantic streak in Homo sapiens sapiens. There’s a difference, after all, between tasteful adulation and arrant toadyism, but they just don’t get it.

Luli turned out to be uncompromising and brilliant. She could prosecute honey before a jury of bears and win.

There are none so blind as those who see angels...None so deaf as those who hear gods.