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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
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Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
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For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain
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So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.
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I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
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Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
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If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
