“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”
“Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful effects created on stage are often the result of a secret so absurd that the magician would be embarrassed to admit that that was how it was done.”
“I want to import what’s important, and export the trivial out of my life.”
“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”
“Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.”
“Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause of the event, but the event had to take place simply because it had to take place.”