The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.
It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.
Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.
I love playing in America. I feel having been there a few times that I "get" America a lot more than I used to. It used to be so strange to me. It takes years to learn how to separate the actual, major, important differences from the superficial differences that aren't essential or crucial.
I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
