I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
“The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.”
“And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.”