“I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even a drop of love, compassion, simple human decency (no matter how small; how seemingly insignificant) into the sea of earthly existence—we are, each and every one of us—the being called Mercy.”

~J. M. DeMatteis

American writer of comic books, television, and novels J. M. DeMatteis was born on this day in 1953.