Pat Sanders

“Children ask better questions than do adults. “May I have a cookie?” “Why is the sky blue?” and “What does a cow say?” are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than “Where’s your manuscript?” “Why haven’t you called?” and “Who’s your lawyer?”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“I don’t care, I love you anyhow. It is too late to turn you out of my heart. Part of you lives here.”
― Anne Sexton

“No dictatorship can tolerate jazz. It is the first sign of a return to freedom.”
― Dave Brubeck

“Although the ideal of celibacy was always put forward as a matter of high spirituality, the controlling motive for this purging of marriage from the priesthood [with the First Lateran Council, 1123] was economic. Through networks of monasteries and feudal fiefdoms, the Church was the largest landowner in Christendom — the territory described today as Western Europe. Celibate clergy, with no households to support, would lack the essential drive to accumulate wealth for themselves; nor would they produce legitimate heirs to lodge competing claims to the vast estates and treasures the medieval church was hell-bent on protecting and expanding.”
― James Carroll, The Truth at the Heart of the Lie: How the Catholic Church Lost Its Soul