"...Everything else is inconvenience."

 



Ceremonial Eagle by Sue Wise

“If you break your neck,
if you have nothing to eat,
if your house is on fire,
then you got a problem.
Everything else is inconvenience.”

~ Robert Fulghum

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
Robert Lee Fulghum (born June 4, 1937) is an American author, primarily of short essays. 
He came to prominence in the US when his first collection, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988), stayed on the New York Times bestseller lists for nearly two years. Throughout this collection, subtitled "Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things," Fulghum expounds his down-home philosophy of seeing the world through the eyes of a child.
There are currently more than 16 million copies of his books in print, published in 27 languages in 103 countries. His prose style is very simple and direct, and finds life-affirming maxims in such mundane matters as zoos, leaf-raking, and dusting.
He lives in Seattle, Washington, Moab, Utah, and on the Greek island of Crete, but grew up in Waco, Texas.
 
http://www.robertfulghum.com/