Kurt had a light way with words that struck my funny bone. This is a short extract:
‘I am incidentally, honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as honorably as we can without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community.
We had a memorial service for Asimov a while back, and at one point I said ‘Isaac is up there in Heaven now.’ That was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of Humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored,
If I should die, again God forbid, I hope some of you will say ‘Kurt’s up there in Heaven now.’
That’s my favourite joke.’
Go buy the book – you’ll love it.