Quote of the Day (Lynne Truss, on Our ‘Screen-Bound Lives’ and Social Skills)

“Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.” —English journalist, novelist, and radio broadcaster and dramatist Lynne Truss, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door (2005)

The image accompanying this post, of Lynne Truss at an event for Melville House Press in Brooklyn, was taken on Feb. 13, 2015, by Terry Ballard from Merrick, NY.

Quote of the Day (Mandy Patinkin, With His Grandpa’s Advice on How To Behave Toward People)

“My grandpa Max the junkman would say in Yiddish, ‘The wheel is always turning.’ What he meant was how to behave toward people. The person on the bottom of the wheel, you better be nice to, because at some point you’re going to be on the bottom.”—Emmy and Tony-winning American actor-singer Mandy Patinkin quoted by Alex Witchel, “‘I Behaved Abominably,’” The New York Times Magazine, Aug. 25, 2013

The image accompanying this post, a cropped picture of Patinkin posing with a fan at the Israel @ 60 event in Washington D.C. on June 1, 2008, was uploaded July 28, 2008, by Jeffhardywhyx (talk).