A sane person is always at a disadvantage when negotiating with a lunatic.

Robert Kroese, Starship Grifters [Bookshop, Amazon]

Hermetic quote Kroese Starship Grifters negotiating with a lunatic

Consider also:

  1. Omnium Gatherum: 7feb2021
  2. “all tends toward spiritual evolution”
  3. “Pleading insanity, Rudy the Ringleader is committed and spends the rest of his life pretending to be a vegetable. Rudy likes being a vegetable. It’s much easier than being a human.”
  4. Shibumi
  5. “No, we’re going to provide them with a valuable life lesson.” “Don’t trust strangers?” I suggested.