To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

…you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

I don’t know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense...

You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.