‘I’m The Jonah At The Party’

“Gaunt, but smiling, Misko circulated through the crowd, relishing conversation with his guests at Pascal’s Manale restaurant, most of whom he expected never to see again.”

“It’s a great thing for them to be taking charge of their futures in such a way.”

“Even in our tales of past lives, human beings are incredibly predictable and frequently dull. This, to me, is the single most disappointing takeaway from studies on past life regression.”

“Say you’re a Godly fellow of pure heart and intention in the seventh century, and you’ve met a lady, and the two of you would like to have some sex.”

“Young Victorian ladies suffered from a lot of disadvantages, true, but a lack of ways to deal with insults from young popinjays was not one of them.”

“It’s worked pretty well for lionfish and giant prawns, but some invasives just aren’t that appetizing.”

“I told my friends that if I don’t come back within an hour, tell the police that I was here looking for used vegetable oil from a guy who left a note in serial-killer writing on my car.”

“Basically, the Secret Service would love it if someone would explain the Internet so it doesn’t go around arresting sarcastic people with itchy social media trigger fingers.”

“This is not because I think myself a fit antagonist for so great a genius, nor even because I feel at all sure that I knew what he meant.”

“We indeed are not ignorant, that the circuit of the heavens is finite, and that the earth, like a little globe, is placed in the center.”

“They speak as though snow and hail are some sort of natural phenomenon, and that the snow and hail are formed spontaneously, during a storm – not stored up for the day of trouble, as the Bible clearly says.”