"If you were me, you'd be dead by now." —David Murray*

* Which calls to mind a remark by my old friend Ralph Gaillard, who said in a moment of workplace dismay: "If I was dead, right now I'd be spinning in my grave."

I forgive, but only on account of, I forget.

In correspondence to a book author last week, I thanked him for writing such a fine book.

"The marketing copy will write itself," I said, adding parenthetically, "(But I'll have to do the typing.)"