Buffy Wisdom Monday!

GILES: Still, best to be, uh, on the alert. If Drusilla is alive, it could be a fairly... cataclysmic state of affairs.

XANDER: Again, so many words! Couldn't you just say, 'we'd be in trouble'?

GILES: Go to class, Xander.

XANDER: Gone. Notice the economy of phrasing: 'gone.' Simple. Direct.