Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.

We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around." "How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere." "Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?

I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane and authoritative character of academic writing may be seen, to some extent, as a vengeful reaction to the inertia, uneventfulness, and waiting one had to endure as a guest at someone else's banquet. A way of redressing an existental imbalance, as it were reclaiming authorial will by superimposing one's own meaning on theirs...

Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.