Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.
Mark TwainIs the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
Mark TwainMan has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.
Mark Twain