When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all. - Max Barry

The atmosphere of desperate, ignorant terror essential to healthy rumors seeps away, replaced by a silent, wary paranoia. People bunker down, jealously keeping what they know, which is nothing, to themselves.

Senior Management may have been incompetent; it may have been corrupt; it was certainly full of assholes—but they were their incompetent, corrupt assholes.

I feel comfortably qualified to talk about anything, but that's a personal problem and I'm dealing with it.