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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
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I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.
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I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.
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They serve God well, who serve his creatures.
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Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.
