Joke of the Day (Steven Wright, on Math and His Anxiety)

“When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.” — Stand-up comic Steven Wright, quoted in “The Age-Old Problem,” Reader’s Digest, December 2015

(Photo of Steven Wright after a spring 1994 performance in Cohen Auditorium at Tufts University.)