At least we're great

Columbus Day.

"America is a mistake, a great mistake." -- Sigmund Freud.

That's just your ego talking

Sigmund Freud was born today in 1856.

"I think he's crude, I think he's medieval, and I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me." -- Vladimir Nabokov.

Let's all set a goal for the New Year

Samuel Johnson, the English writer, lexicographer, critic, wit and subject of Boswell's Life of Johnson, died on this day in 1784. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

"The goal of all life is death." -- Sigmund Freud.

For some of Johnson's thoughts on the subject of death (and life leading up to it), visit farewells.blogspot.com.