Tim OBrien

“Spring surprised me, as she always does those of us who remain most of our lives indoors”
― Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe

“An oft-told joke: a statistician drowned crossing a river that was only three feet deep on average.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

“For most of the past century, your odds of being killed by a cougar were about the same as your odds of being killed by a filing cabinet. Snowplows kill twice as many Canadians as grizzly bears do.”
― Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

“He had heard it said by an exceptionally clever bard that if you tried to number the ways you could die in the Heartwyld you’d be dead before you finished counting.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld