Can't abide adventure. 'Adventure' is a word people use to put a shine on lack of preparation and surviving through dumb luck.

It had been an enormous, extraordinary, outrageous adventure. And it was deadly.

There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces

A lich guards his phylactery like an elf guards his salad.

Most people feel that birds evolved from one kind of dinosaur. But our bad luck was to find the other kind of dinosaur, and unfortunately it has a bird-like heart too. So this means that bird-like hearts may be typical of highly evolved, late-in-the-era, dinosaurs -- they were evolving, they were changing.