When I read something saying I’ve not done anything as good as ‘Catch-22’ I’m tempted to reply, ‘Who has?’ — Joseph Heller
There are some variations of the following anecdote. Any one, or part of them, may be true, or may not be true, again, in whole, or in part. But the truth is obviously not the point. Sometimes underlying truths, and other truths like them, are the most important of all. Even those made up, and discovered.
A woman is walking through Paris when she spies Pablo Picasso sitting at a cafe. She works up her courage and approaches him.
“Monsieur Picasso,” she asks, “I’ve always admired your work. Would you do my portrait? I will pay anything you ask.”
Picasso agrees. He grabs a menu, borrows a pencil from the waiter, and in a few minutes draws the portrait. “That will be 5,000 francs, Madame,” he says.
“5,000 francs? But Monsieur Picasso, it only took you a few minutes!”
“No Madame, it took me my entire life.”
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. — George Bernard Shaw
Happy Thanksgiving.
