*image by Ben Harubin

 

Question: What was the origin of the notion of
"overstaying your welcome"?
Answer: Men thinking about themselves.

Okay, if that one was too difficult, here's an easier one. (Liar!)

Question: How can you always definitively spot an ordinary man?
Answer: The continual pursuit of the impossible troubles him not.

...And don't tell me that one wasn't easy, or you're gonna knock over your
plate of beans.

Regardless of its prohibition,
if you live in a reality of theater,
someone will always be yelling "fire."

More About Human (Specifically Mental) Expenses:
The cost of anything is in direct proportion to your lack of understanding it.

On one of our invisible sister planets were once some creatures whose
classification was listed not as "Homo sapiens" but as "Sign us up."

Don't worry about the draft in this universe's league, the idea of there
being a "first round" of choices and a final one is but a localized illusion,
and one which becomes obvious to everyone -- when it's too late.

But how can it ever be "too late," you ask, if there is no final round?
It's too late in the context of a man trailing behind the thoughts running through him
until he can no longer conceive of any alternative thereto.
It is then too late in that his mental life has cost him everything he potentially possessed.

The cost of anything is in direct proportion to your lack of understanding of it.

More Regarding Sleep -- And Professional Perspectives Thereof:
To try and "get somewhere," one man at first tried to sleep less at night,
then switched his approach and tried to sleep even more than before,
and then built an alarm clock that would ring at indeterminable times,
then finally consulted an expert in such matters who, as soon as the man
mentioned the word "tried," laughed himself into an uncontrollable fit.

In one city, the train station sells tickets only to those with nowhere to go.
You know who you are!
(Which is not true. For it is precisely those who do not know who they are
who want to buy such tickets, who believe that, if they can but go someplace else,
then there will they finally discover exactly who they are.)
Such travel is not "broadening," indeed, for a mind with potential the name of that
rail line should be Anaconda.