We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.
Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.
If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.
Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.
Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.
We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.
The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movies were new. Hugo's father had stepped into a dark room, and on a white screen he had seen a rocket fly right into the eye of the man in the moon. Father said he had never experienced anything like it. It had been like seeing his dreams in the middle of the day.
And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.
I find it so funny that people find me so interesting.