Aphorisms



Marriage is like learning brain surgery by trial and error—with yourself for practice. (Uncle Genie)












You can't have everything. Where would you keep it?
(Steven Wright)











After you have a grandchild all your other relatives fade into soft-focus background.
(Uncle Genie)






Sometimes you eat the bear.

Sometimes the bear eats you.






If you weren't afraid . . .

what would you be doing right now?


 






There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. (Red Smith)