ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open marauding.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

You know, I always liked that about you, Janet. You think like a criminal.

Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions apparently arrived at carefully and through reason, but really no more than marauding appetites cunningly tricked out as reasonable choices?