“What’s the point of being a hedonist if you’re not having a good time?”

Lily Tomlin’s "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" show, quoted in The New Republic Oct. 7, 1991

“‘It doesn’t really matter.’” “‘Here goes nothing.’” “‘It will be interesting to see what happens.’”

The three things the main character would say to himself, in that order, before paratroop-jumping during World War Two, in Sloan Wilson The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit

“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted on www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ralph_waldo_emerson_384371

Re the iPod Canada site opening and having 700,000 songs “it’s striking that almost everyone I’ve asked took only about 10 minutes to discover what they couldn’t find. As they used to say on MTV, too much is never enough.”

Paul Wells in Maclean’s December 20, 2004

“There is no way a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.”

G.K. Chesterton, regarding his fiancee, quoted by Robert More-Jumonville in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 5 (March 2001)

“Now there’s a guy who lost the human race.”

My own thought April 2 2004 on abject failure (not any specific instance of it, just the general concept)

In my latest National Post column I say we need to weigh the real dangers from the pandemic against the real and rapidly growing dangers from the lockdown.

“Work fast, change speeds, throw strikes.”

The 3 keys to pitching, according to the announcers on Toronto Blue Jays’ game September 5, 1995