How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?

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Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

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Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

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Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends

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I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

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Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.

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Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.

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Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.

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Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.

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The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?

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