Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurat...e because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Remember When cruelty, metal, public, uncomplex,... Trampled you obviously and every hour. . . ." (Now cruelty flaunts diplomas, is elite, Delicate, has polish, knows how to be discreet) ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rise. Let us combine. There are no magics or elves... Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the y...ears it gets to be long enough for you pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. It's another thing, though, to hold up that cloth for inspection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
what if I'm 60 years old and not married, all alone in a furnished room with pee stains on my underwear... and everybody else is married!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
when Mrs Kindhead comes to collect for the Community Chest grab her and tell her There are unfavorable omens in the sky! ...>And when the mayor comes to get my vote tell him When are you going to stop people killing whales!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »