The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.
Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.