Fate is not above using inconsiderable details for her obscure purpose. — John Wyndham

"There's nothing more egocentric than a cat."

Safe passage along the catwalk of one's own racial code must be achieved through long experience; it is harder still to climb from it to another, and when that other is as involved as a maze and is entirely supported by incomprehensible misconceptions, a foot is bound to slip through the fabric from time to time.

"It's better to have a pistol you don't want, than to want a pistol you've not got."