Words, in the final analysis, are just about as futile as actions, and much less fun. - Robert Sheckley

It was an eccentric sort of event, even for Esmeralda, and needed a special kind of person to volunteer to do it. Luckily, the human race has never thought up anything so ludicrous, dangerous, and frivolous that it won’t attract many willing volunteers.

I'm proposing to pay you five thousand dollars to do something you'll find quite enjoyable." "Make it ten," Foote said, "and I'll enjoy it even more.

I gave up my dream of flight and rebirth, and invented a proverb to fit the occasion: he who produces an illusion is more likely than anyone else to be taken in by it. The thought gave me very little comfort.