Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks.

We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.

The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.