You did well in school?

Costello: You do well in school?
Young Colin: Yeah
Costello: That's good. So did I. They call that a paradox.

From The Departed

Be many people

"...and you, Marcus, you have given me many things; now I shall give you this good advice. Be many people. Give up the game of being always Marcus Cocoza. You have worried too much about Marcus Cocoza, so that you have been really his slave and prisoner. You have not done anything without first considering how it would affect Marcus Cocoza's happiness and prestige. You were always much afraid that Marcus might do a stupid thing, or be bored. What would it really have mattered ? All over the world people are doing stupid things..! I should like you to be easy, your heart to be light again. You must, from now, be more than one, be many people, as many as you can think of..."

- Karen Blixen ("The Dreamers")

Scarborough Fair

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
For once she was a true love of mine

Have her make me a cambric shirt
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Without no seam nor fine needle work
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to weave it in a sycamore wood lane
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And gather it all with a basket of flowers
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Have her wash it in yonder dry well
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
where water ne'er sprung nor drop of rain fell
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Have her find me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Between the sea foam and over the sand
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Plow the land with the horn of a lamb
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Then sow some seeds from north of the dam
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And gather it all in a bunch of heather
And then she'll be a true love of mine

If she tells me she can't, I'll reply
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Let me know that at least she will try
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Love imposes impossible tasks
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Though not more than any heart asks
And I must know she's a true love of mine

Dear, when thou has finished thy task
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Come to me, my hand for to ask
For thou then art a true love of mine

-An unknown author (probably medieval)
(Some of it was sung by Simon & Garfunkel in their Album "Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme")

About the Song Scarborough Fair

Eyes of a Child

You've found the place to walk the path you've chosen
You'll never miss the world you've left behind
When life gives life, its happiness unbroken
When you give love, its love you'll find.

In the eyes of a child there is joy there is laughter
There is hope, there is trust, a chance to shape the future
For the lessons of life there is no better teacher
Than the look in the eyes of a child.

-from Eyes of a Child (Ron bloom and Graham Russell (Air Supply))

Wind of Change

The wind of change blows straight
into the face of time
Like a stormwind that will ring
the freedom bell for peace of mind
Let your balalaika sing
what my guitar wants to say

- from Wind of Change (Scorpions)