Damn right I voted for him. But if I’d known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote — I’d have cast a brick. - John Brunner

He had many names, but one nature, and this unique nature made him subject to certain laws not binding upon ordinary persons. In a compensatory fashion, he was also free from certain other laws more commonly in force.

What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incapable of explaining it to anyone who might help, was that in spite of the evidence around them, in spite of what their eyes and ears reported-and sometimes their flesh, from bruises, stab wounds, racking coughs, weeping sores-these people believed their way of life was the best in the world, and were prepared to export it at the point of a gun.

Of course, lately he has been very upset about the state of the world. But isn’t everybody who bothers to pay attention?