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You look like gold. I’ve been fooled before, but now I know I’ve made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Science is nothing but perception.

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.