User:Mwltruffaut

=Personal Information=

Name Clifton Smith

Year of Birth 1982

Personal Introduction I write, make music, read, and watch movies.

Musical Interests Ron Sexsmith, Randy Newman, Leonard Cohen, Lucinda Williams....

Reading Interests Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, Ted L. Nancy....

Film/TV Interests Elmer Gantry, Woody Allen, François Truffaut, Iron Man, Miloš Forman, Stephen Colbert, Eddie Izzard, C-SPAN, Book TV....

Misc. Interests Writing, Musical Composition, Language, Film....

Other Sites/Projects sic magazine: This is a web magazine I help edit and contribute to. Planet and Epoch: This is my personal blog. Wikimedia: This is my user page at Wikimedia.

Favorite Quotes "All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls under the dominion of our senses must be in nature and, however exceptional, cannot differ in its essence from all the other effects of the visible and tangible world of which we are a self-conscious part. The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is—marvels and mysteries acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would almost justify the conception of life as an enchanted state. No, I am too firm in my consciousness of the marvelous to be ever fascinated by the mere supernatural which (take it any way you like) is but a manufactured article, the fabrication of minds insensitive to the intimate delicacies of our relation to the dead and to the living, in their countless multitudes; a desecration of our tenderest memories; an outrage on our dignity." —Joseph Conrad "Author's Note", The Shadow Line, 1917

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." —Carl Sagan The Demon-Haunted World, 1996