Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. — John Keats
Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It’s not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.
Evil is that which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
caterpallor, n.: The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you’re eating.
I am more bored than you could ever possibly be. Go back to work.
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Here is an Appalachian version of management’s answer to those who are concerned with the fate of the project: “Don’t worry about the mule. Just load the wagon.”
When you said “HEAVILY FORESTED” it reminded me of an overdue CLEANING BILL … Don’t you SEE? O’Grogan SWALLOWED a VALUABLE COIN COLLECTION and HAD to murder the ONLY MAN who KNEW!!
