"The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!"

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.”
“I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.”
“Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.”
“You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith.”
“I just tend to admire people who go for what they believe in, like David Lynch for example, and just say what goes through their heads, and are not afraid of people not accepting them. I have no respect for people who deliberately try to be weird to attract attention, but if that's who you honestly are, you shouldn't try to "normalize yourself". It's a fine line.”

Source : AOL Live, 1996.
“I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.”
“Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.”
“How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?”

Source : John Diamond (2001). “Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations”, Random House

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