Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

Humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.

Comedy is the best way to distance yourself from life’s difficulties.

‘The HoneyLine’ is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.

Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.

We have learned how to navigate to the moon. That is like the ancient Chinese mainlanders learning how to get to Formosa; Formosa is the moon. After we settle it, we jump off from there to Mars, just like they went next to the Philippines. And from there across our vast galaxy. If the Austronesians can sail in there boats and scatter into settlements across Oceania, we can take our spacecraft and scatter and settle across the Milky Way. It may take even longer than it took the Austronesians, but if they did it, so can we, because they are us.

Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today’s cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.

No one knows what’s next, but everybody does it.

Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.