If There Is A Reason

I Started By Writing, With My Partner Ed Simmons, A Monologue For Danny Thomas, That He Performed At Ciro's Nightclub In Los Angeles.

... For All Our Alarm, It Is Clear That The Religious Right Is Responding To A Real Hunger In Our Society... A Deep-seated Yearning For Stable Values... When Conservative Christian Groups Talk Of Failures In Our Educational System, The Erosion Of Our Moral Standards, And The Waste Of Young Lives, They Are Addressing Real And Legitimate Concerns... Among Secularists, The Aversion Toward Discussion Of Moral Values, Let Alone Religion, Can Reach Absurd Extremes.

Granted, The Writers, Directors, Producers, And That Community Make A Great Deal Of Money. But They Might Be Choosing To Do A Whole Lot Of Other Things For The Living They Make.

I Think That Of Most Leaders In Religion As Power Brokers. They Give Orders, In A Sense, To An Audience Every Week, And That's Where The Definition Of God Starts.

Life Is Made Up Of Small Pleasures. Happiness Is Made Up Of Those Tiny Successes. The Big Ones Come Too Infrequently. And If You Don't Collect All These Tiny Successes, The Big Ones Don't Really Mean Anything.