“Tell me, then! What is so important?” “Your life! I could not bear that you should lose it!” “I feel much… — Jack Vance

I may be called upon to address the company. No one will listen, of course, which is just as well, since I have nothing to say.

He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.

The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.