I knew he was mentally sound because he was a psychiatrist. A horible word, fact, when it denies you the future and the stars. An ant is intelligent, in a way, but no man ever established communication with an ant. The SF writer has the privilege denied to writers in all other fields, except sheer fantasy, to tailor his background, his universe, to the story he wants to write. You can never tell what a drunken Irishman will do.
Truth is an elusive thing.
A silent scream can never be silenced. You don't feel a mosquito bite when you've got your leg in a beartrap. No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named. All problems form a continuous nexus and no problem is an island. The funny thing about coincidences is that they really happen somtimes.