—Why can I never visualize things turning out better as clearly as I can visualize the catastrophes I scraped… — John Brunner

—Blessed are they who expect the worst, for they shall get it!

—If I ever get good at hospital politics, I think I shall start to hate myself.

A cripple can still be a person, but in what sense is a lunatic human? Humanity’s in the mind, in the tangle of thoughts spun by the brain, and once that’s gone what remains is human only in outward shape.