All say, “How hard it is that we have to die”—a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live - Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

"Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them — and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug, — push it a little — crowd it a little — weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.

- "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts"

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.