I despise internal investigations. Even if you win, you lose. - Lois McMaster Bujold

It’s a moribund body anyway, afflicted with the narrowest conservatism and stuffed with old relics only concerned with protecting their privileges. I’m not sure anything can be done with the Counts in the long run. Perhaps they should finally be allowed to dodder over the brink of extinction.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.