Why, without a sense of humour, you are blind to so much in the world. To human nature. To the absurdity of so much that we say and do. - Steven Erikson

Burdens were born from the loss of innocence. Naïveté. While the innocent yearned to lose their innocence, those who had already done so in turn envied the innocent, and knew grief in what they had lost. Between the two, no exchange of truths was possible

Generally speaking, people useless at everything else become academics

Oh, we talk of progress, but what we really desire is the perpetuation of the present. With its seemingly endless excesses, its ravenous appetites. Ever the same rules, ever the same game.