Love isn’t powerful enough. But spite? Spite can change the world.

Because a funny thing about rule-loving people is that to them it seems more important to impose punishment than it is to actually solve problems, and a funny thing about rule-breaking people is that they seem to find breaking rules a lot easier to do if someone else has broken them first.

He is in his thirties, he is not young, but also not old. He is a perfect combination of nothing.

Now, there’s probably some poor reader out there who’s going to protest with some nonsense along the lines of “Um, well actually, humans are herd animals!” And that may be true. But more than anything else, humans have historically proved to be in-need-of-therapy animals.

with the defeated manner of a sausage that dressed itself up as a carrot to avoid being eaten by a bear, only to be found by a rabbit.

If you ask people what they think, they start thinking, and that’s how wars start.

He has never once asked anyone “What would you like to eat tonight?” and gotten the answer “I can eat anything!” which just happen to be words that never ever in the history of humankind have been uttered by someone who will actually eat any of the FIFTEEN things then suggested to them.

“I usually keep my peanuts next to a jar of peanut butter, so they understand what I’m capable of!”

Because Lucas is making the mistake of thinking that the board wants to solve the problem. But people actually almost never want to do that.