When we're young, we notice things that are young, like ourselves. New grass on old graves. New leaves on old trees - Gene Wolfe

She often spoke of marryin' a butcher or a sausage maker, having a liking for those trades, as she said, for they knew you couldn't never get all the stains from their aprons, and didn't demand it.

He is not mad. He is only more clever than you. It is not the same.

They based their extrapolations on numbers. That worked as long as money, which is easily measured numerically, was the principle motivating force in human affairs. But as time progressed, human actions became responsive instead to a multitude of incommensurable vectors.