Theodore Sturgeon

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

I don't think parents can protect their kids in this media-nut culture.