I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.