"In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of ru..." — John Updike

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.