“Everyone is sick to death about the boy who throws the sand dollar back into the ocean.*

“The naval ship that keeps requesting the lighthouse keeper to move to avoid a collision is about as old.  They were poignant and funny once. So were silent films.”

 . . .
“*A passerby says that the effort can’t make a difference because there are thousands washed up on the beach. ‘But it made a difference to that one,’ says the now-stereotyped philosophical child.”

Money Talks. How to Make a Million as a Speaker.

I love this book…