HEINLEIN'S ADAGE

 "The old adage 'the early bird gets the worm' just means the worm should have stayed in bed."- Attributed to author Robert Heinlein.

DUCHOVNY'S DENT DICTUM

 http://ew.com/article/2016/04/15/david-duchovny-book-bucky-dent-seth-meyers/

April  15, 2017- David Duchovny’s newest novel, Bucky F*ing Dent, takes its name from a 1978 playoff game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, in which the titular Yankees player devastated Red Sox fans with an unexpected home run. (The colorful epithet is his eternal punishment from angry New England residents.) That climactic game does show up in the book, but as Duchovny explained to Seth Meyers on Thursday, the name and event are more thematic touchstones for the novel’s story of a complicated father/son relationship.

“One of the characters says towards the end of the book, ‘It’s never Micky Mantle who kills you. Never Babe Ruth or Willie Mays. Never the guy you prepare for. It’s always the head cold that kills you. It’s Bucky F*ing Dent,'” Duchovny said. “It becomes like a eulogy for the losers in life, and the underdogs in a way. That’s kind of the underpinning of the whole book.”

KNOX'S OBSERVATION

"Where there's smoke, there's either fire *or* a big smoke machine." - John Knox

TYSON'S LAW

"Anyone can have a plan until they get punched in the face." -Mike Tyson