Majicman Notes

One evening I went to a concert at Royal Albert Hall, and behind the conductor’s head was a red lightbulb. If it went on, that meant “imminent danger” — a bomb was coming.… To stay… Read more

Fate would not have the reputation it has if it simply did what it seemed it would do. Amor Towles, A Gentleman from Moscow Read more

Care granted to the sick, welcome offered to the banished, forgiveness itself are worth nothing without a smile enlightening the deed. We communicate in a smile beyond languages, classes, and parties. We are faithful members… Read more

When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say. Tyrion Lannister A Clash of Kings, by George R.… Read more

Always aspire to act in a way that cancels out someone else’s cruel or stupid behavior. Carl Hiaasen, Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech You’ll Never Hear Read more

“I will have no man in my boat “ said Starbuck, “who is not afraid of whale”.  “By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which… Read more

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And… Read more

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.’ And our opinion of what happens is entirely up to us. Michel de Montaigne Read more

It makes me sad to say that we have to suffer in order to stop being idiots. I would prefer that we be idiotic for as short a time as possible. Isabelle Autissier, Lunch with… Read more

You cannot hope to be a moral person, if you do not first make an effort to see that the world is a very different place for the person sitting next to you. That their… Read more