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

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

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