The Importance of Perception

"I would never have interviewed Mike Tyson. I heard this from three or four people," he says. "He said, when I feel like I'm somebody, I'm offended. But when I remember that I'm nobody, it doesn't bother me." If you spent 20 minutes staring up at night on a cloudless night and looking at the stars, your place in the cosmos is infinitesimally small but not forgettable. That's just true; we don't want it to be true, but it is true.