"Life is truly a ride," says comedian Jerry Seinfeld. "We're all strapped in, and no one can stop it. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up."

With equal wit, Cynthia Kraman asks, "What If the Hokey Pokey IS REALLY what it's all about? . . . I used to have a handle on life," she says, "but it broke . . . Don't take life too seriously," she continues, "you won't get out alive . . . We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse . . . Life's a rash," she concludes, "and then there's death and the itching's ove…