I dont really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric… Im not operating on somebodys brain, you know what I mean? So I just think its all funny. – Harry Connick, Jr.
Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, “On the Pitying,” Thus Spake Zarathustra
There he goes, in his long russet surtout, sweeping down yonder gravel-walk, beneath the trees, like a yellow leaf in autumn wafted along by a fitful gust of wind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, of Monsieur d’Argentville