Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere. The Foundation series (1951)
If there is a misuse of power, it is on her part. My crime is that I have never labored to make myself popular — I admit that much — and I have paid too little attention to fools who are old enough to be senile but young enough to have power. The Foundation series (1951)