Hark! The Grand Lama speaks from high atop his mountain above the valley of Shangri-La!

"Virgil bade Dante feel towards those who have been damned because of their colorless neutrality: Non ragionam di lor, ma guarda e passa — 'Let us think no more about them, but look once and pass on.'"

Archie Bunker (played with bravura by Carroll O'Connor—"Connor's own politics were liberal, but he understood the Bunker character and played him not only with bombast and humor,but with touches of vulnerability") was funny because you knew he was fictional.

When you meet a bigot in real life, he is not funny at all!

Don Firth