I’ll follow the reedy tenor of his excuses and blast them with the bellowy bass of irrefutable logic! - Robert Sheckley

All very unreasonable, but Arthur Gammet was beginning to suspect that most wizards were unreasonable people.

A tremor ran through him. He had chosen, he reminded himself. He alone was responsible. The psychological test had proved that.
And yet, how responsible were the psychologists who had given him the test? How responsible was Mike Terry for offering a poor man so much money? Society had woven the noose and put it around his neck, and he was hanging himself with it, and calling it free will.

He had poured too much gilt on the lily; in striving to create a paragon, he had only succeeded in producing a paradox.