Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.

It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.

Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.