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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.