In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.