Huston Smith on a May 1998 remark of Freeman Dyson:
"...all theology, he said, suffers from
being about words only,
whereas science is about things.
Click and double-click!.... I took pen in hand...."
-- Why Religion Matters, Harper Collins, 2001
Kirk Douglas on the Holy Spirit:
"We are all born of royalty, in a gold box,
even a ragman's son. Within us is a tiny seed
of godliness -- the Spirit of God, the Shechinah...."
-- Climbing the Mountain, 1997, page 256
Recall the remark made to the cigarette-girl
clothed in a large Old Gold box
in the film "My Favorite Year" (1982).
"256" -- The Pennsylvania State Lottery number
for May 14, 1998 -- The night Sinatra died.
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