Christopher Marlowe

Accursed be he that first invented war.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.