Sublime

But because we are laughed at, I don’t think people really understand how essential we are to their sanity. If it weren’t for the brief respite we give the world with our foolishness, the world would see mass suicide in numbers that compare favorably with the death rate of the lemmings.

Mark Twain is often quoted as having said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

The most famous line in the history of movies is somebody saying something wrong. It’s the line, “Here’s looking at you, kid.” But Bogart actually says, “He’s looking at you, kid.” That little inexpressive nothing became a classic thing. And the big stuff sort of went away. That’s my first point and probably my last.