Author: Dr Wingnut
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Consequences
Everybody sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.Robert Louis Stevenson
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Childhood
One could say that I had a happy childhood, although I showed little talent for being happy.Samuel Beckett
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Mrs. Marv Mendenhall
Back when David Letterman had a daytime show (Jun-Nov 1980), he had a regular character named Mrs. Marv Mendenhall played by Edie McClurg. This segment always cracked me up, so I did a search for Mrs. Marv on YouTube, and the Late show sites to see if I could find a clip, but none of…
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Ego
The ego is a self-justifying historian, which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.Anthony G. Greenwald
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Loneliness
Loneliness is not being alone; it’s loving others to no avail. Mario Stefani as quoted in The City of Falling Angels
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Progress
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.General Chuck Yeager