Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.
Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began.
I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.