Robert Dilday

Quotes
"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
-- C. S. Lewis
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"You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary."
-- Frederick Buechner
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"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting."
-- Seen on a professor's door
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"While people certainly come to church to receive clear moral guidance, they also come to engage in dialogue about difficult questions, and to find something that isn't readily available in the larger society -- a place where disagreement is handled gracefully and respectfully by people of shared religious values."
-- Henry G. Brinton

Moulin Rouge, L'Auberge Espagnole, Goodbye Lenin, Stranger Than Fiction, Amelie, Love Actually, A Very Long Engagement, Fight Club, The Painted Veil, The Illusionist, Crash, Across the Universe

Kings of Convenience, the Shins, John Tavener, Paul Schwartz, Dvorak, Morten Lauridsen, Django Reinhardt and all gypsy jazz, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, Sinatra, Buble, Nickel Creek, O.A.R., Dave Matthews, Guster

A Room with a View (E.M. Forster); Emma (Jane Austen); The Impercipient (Thomas Hardy's poem); Worship (Evelyn Underhill); Gaudy Night (Dorothy Sayers); anything by John le Carre; 1491: New Revelations of the America's Before Columbus (Charles Mann); The Milagro Beanfield War (John Nichols); Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)