Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Like every illusion, fiction is one of the innumerable parts of reality.

Who we are usually depends on who is—or who we think is—looking at us.

Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection.

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.