“You might say that,” Flynn said, thus avoiding an outright lie, since anyone might say anything whether it was true or not. - Robert Sheckley

The coincidence would be too great anywhere except in Venice, where the machinery of illusion delights in casting up the improbable, the unusual, and the unexpected. There is a price, of course; by tampering with probabilities, Venice induces a deterioration in the commonplace—to her disadvantage.

It is all so familiar! I suppose that an electron, traveling from one atom to another, also expects to enter a realm of unimaginable novelty. But perhaps the scenery in every part of the universe is roughly similar; since one sees in accordance with who one is rather than with what is there.

You argue too damned well!" "It is just my good luck," Detringer said, "that logic happens to be on the side of helping me.