Probably should have included some Ricki Lee Jones and certainly Tom Waits early stuff - Nighthawks at the Diner and Foreign Affairs
You gotta tell me, brave Captain,
Why are the wicked, so strong?
How do the angels get to sleep,
When the Devil leaves his porch light on ( from
Mr. Seigel )
>Now, that's what I'm talkin' about! It will take me some time to go through your list, but that was sweet!
>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
