My five most important autobiographical facts:

1.  I can take a sunrise and sprinkle it with dew.  I cover it with chocolate and a miracle or two.

2.  I possess the paradoxical (perhaps) pleasure of being both a practicing Papist and a proudly progressive liberal.

3.  I can take tomorrow and dip it in a dream.  I separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream.

4.  Q.  What’s half black, half white, and all red?   A.  My blood

5.  I make the world taste good.