I am nothing but a scientist of sufficiently advanced technology, which is to say a magician. — Adrian Tchaikovsky

Just because I did good doesn’t mean I don’t feel bad, because the feeling bad, it’s not particularly because of anything that’s happened, it’s just the way I’m wired.

Long-term thinking requires a clarity the natural human mind is not good at.

He seemed dead, but perhaps “dead” meant something different. Perhaps it meant something less permanent.