Be careful, be very careful

Like a lot of my generation, I am a movie fan. I grew up sitting in front of movies on the television and movies at kid’s matinees on Saturday afternoons.

Because of this, movie lines will come to me at times that seem random and disjointed. A book lover may quote Hamlet’s “Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well,” when hearing about the passing of someone they knew. My head will fill with a scene of a handful of mobsters on a couch with an open package of dead fish on a bullet-proof vest and think, “He’s sleeping with the fishes.”

Other lines that come to me at odd times include Anthony Hopkins as...