The Telegraph: "Eilish has made something rich, strange, smart, sad and wise enough to stand comparison with Joni Mitchell's Blue. A heartbreak masterpiece for her generation, and for the ages."

“She personally sets a tone which is elegant, but it’s wise and uncynical and open to feeling,” he says on the phone.

Now the unified locker room considers each day’s “wise words” speeches a galvanizing force as the Chargers push toward the playoffs.

The content of my thoughts changes with the tide, but the pattern of my thinking has been forever shaped by dramatists far wiser than I could ever be.

Each Sunday the wise men are moved a little closer to the empty crib as the days tick closer to Christmas when the baby appears.