“Why should we obey you?” Budu asked. “Because I’m, er, omnipotent,” said Alec. - Kage Baker

I’ve been in the entertainment industry ever since, in one capacity or another. It’s better than the Inquisition. Usually.

The leaf that spreads in the sunlight is the only holiness there is. I haven’t found holiness in the faiths of mortals, nor in their music, nor in their dreams: it’s out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don’t know what it is, this holiness: but it’s there, and it looks at the sky.

Imagine being told that it hadn’t mattered whether the Christians or the Moors got Spain! I can still remember my shock. I got over it fairly quickly, though, because by that time I had learned enough history to know that in the long run it never mattered a damn where any particular race of people planted its collective ass.