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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

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.

The problem isn’t that people don’t understand how good things are. It’s that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren’t that good.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

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.