I see that you will make a competent inspector after all. You have a natural bent for subterfuge and deceit. - Jack Vance

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it’s lessening the tension.

There are also those who, like the author, ensconce themselves on a thunderous crag of omniscience, and with protestations of humility which are either unconvincing or totally absent, assume the obligation of appraisal, commendation, derogation or denunciation of their contemporaries. Still, by and large it is an easier job than digging a ditch.

Aillas replied that while King Audry cited several points of technical interest, and used the resources of abstract logic in an adroit manner, he had actually made no connection with reality.