Motto of the Institute: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; a great deal of knowledge is disaster, which… — Jack Vance

“Beauty comes in often to drink. A spaceman, he claims himself, but as to this I can’t be certain. I have often declared myself a great lover. All of us lie, as much or more than necessary. ‘What is truth?’ asks Pons Pilatus, in the fable, and I answer: ‘A commodity as cheap as air which we hide as if it were as precious as yewl stone.’”

“Everyone is the same,” he told himself. “Anxious to arrive and, when they leave, wondering why they came.”

Revenge is not an ignoble motive, when it works to a productive end.