Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
“Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.”
“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.”