I detect the activist returning with a vengence.

If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake,' Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, 'I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

... How terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

Let's always try to paint the truth ... Our art must be made to mean something.

They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, ‘Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?’. Monet would be ripping his hair out.