Woody had more talent than drive, but a musician, even a poor one, was preferable to a fanatic. He could only assault the ear. - Parke Godwin

The therapists will have a field day and we’ll probably lose hordes to schizophrenia. But cry all they want, stomp around, kick furniture, the human race will get rid of their fairy-tale notions of good, evil and the cosmos, and by God—by Me, I guess—they will grow the hell up.

Infantile, needing to be the center and reason for creation, the less educated or advantaged subject needs a distorted miraculous theology to support a perilous existence, externally and constantly threatened as it is by “them.”

Sorlij tried to imagine a place less organized than this. The concept was a challenge.