23 Quotes by Andrew Mayne

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. – Charles Darwin.

Scanning through the bar graphs and readouts of the first DNA sequence e-mailed to me from the lab, I can see the messy, haphazard collection of instructions that make up a human life. While some would argue that the fact that this almost random pattern is proof of a miracle, I’d point out that by that logic, every living thing that manages to be born is a miracle – and if we’re all miracles, then nobody is, because the word has lost its meaning. Life works or it doesn’t.

Some of the best ideas I’ve gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.

A story isn’t what happens. It’s how it happens.

Besides the emotional difficulty of literally defacing another human being, I become aware of the practical problem.