There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. - James Thurber

I don’t understand,” said the scientist, “why you lemmings all rush down to the sea and drown yourselves.” “How curious,” said the lemming. “The one thing I don’t understand is why you human beings don’t.

Moral: Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.

I trust that this collection of pieces will prove that I ave not become, at sixty six going on fifty, as one friend of mine gallantly put it, completely lugubrious.