Family Is Not An Important Thing. It's

No, I Got A Ged In My 30s. My Kids Know That I Never Stop Learning, And They Know I Love Reading. I Have Books Overflowing Everywhere. I Am Current On Today's Events And I Read The Paper Every Day, And We Talk About It, So They See That Appetite.

The Secret To A Good Marriage, As Far As I Am Concerned, Is A Joke I Make: Keep The Fights Clean And The Sex Dirty.

Listening To People Espouse Beliefs Different From Mine Is Informative, Not Threatening, Because The Only Thing That Can Alter My Worldview Is A New And Undeniable Truth, And Contrary To What Jack Nicholson Says In 'a Few Good Men', "i Can Handle The Truth.

Life Is Good, And There's No Reason To Think It Won't Be--right Up Until The Moment When Everything Explodes Into A Fireball Of Tiny, Unrecognizable Fragments, Or It All Goes Skidding Sideways, Through The Guardrail, Over The Embankment, And Down The Mountain. This Will Happen (and Probably More Than Once).

You've Probably Read In People That I'm A Nice Guy - But When The Doctor First Told Me I Had Parkinson's, I Wanted To Kill Him.