"When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators, Today Is the First Day of the
Rest of Your Life."
-- Management slogan, Ridcully-style
(Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent)
"This...this isn't real?"

"What is real. How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can
feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply
electrical signals interpreted by your brain. This is the world that you
know. The world as it was at the end of the twentieth century. It exists now
only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix.
You've been living in a dream world, Neo. This is the world as it exists
today.... Welcome to the Desert of the Real. We have only bits and pieces of
information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early
twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled
at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI."

-- Neo and Morpheus, "The Matrix"
Life sucks, but death doesn't put out at all.
-- Thomas J. Kopp
Scully: Imagine all a woman's hopes and dreams for her child,
and then nature turns so cruel. What must a mother go
through?
Mulder: Apparently not much in this case, if she'd just throw
it out with the trash.
Scully: I...I guess I was just projecting on myself.
Mulder: Why? Is there a history of genetic abnormalities in
your family?
Scully: No.
Mulder: Well, just find yourself a man with a spotless genetic
makeup and a really high tolerance for being second
guessed and start pumping out the little Uberscullies.
Scully: What about your family?
Mulder: "Hmm? (Scully nods) Well, (he smiles) aside for the
need for corrective lenses and the tendency to be
abducted by extraterrestrials involved in an
International governmental conspiracy, the Mulder
family passes genetic muster.

"The X-Files: Home"
Take
Your
Time
Not
Your life
Burma-Shave (1955)