thank the gods

Kerouac’s credo held that “the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,” and Bukowski’s was superficially similar: “Thank the gods that the first 50 years of my life were spent with the Blue Collars and the truly mad, the truly beaten.”

2002 June 2, Jonathan Kirsch, “The Beat Goes On”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2025

There are – thank the gods – preset radio station buttons on the top of the unit.

2014 May 10, “It plays tunes, makes flowers talk and turns your home into a disco. Now that's a smart home gadget”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2014

“They liked everything I disliked about myself,” said Farida Khelfa, who was discovered at Le Palace nightclub in Paris in 1979 by Jean-Paul Gaultier. She became his muse, as well as a longstanding one to ’80s giants Jean-Paul Goude, Thierry Mugler and Azzedine Alaïa. She said, “Jean Cocteau used to say, ‘Use your faults because they are your own.’ ” Thank the gods they did.

2018 April 17, Thessaly La Force, “When Models Became as Famous as the Artists they Inspired”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2018