In phase one we lived in order to live In phase two we talked in order to live In phase three,

Like Jacob If you wrestle with the divine Through the darkest hours You will get hurt and limp away Which we call experiencing loss

My dreams are no longer about wish fulfillment but about the Amazon fulfillment center

The biggest change in my lifetime Has been the change in the meaning… They don’t have a prayer It used to mean They don’t have a chance

The struggle to become an individual in no way implies the need to be unique

I have just complet– ed my memoirs: One Hundred Years of Solid Food

Whistler’s mother had just spent a long day with Whis– tler’s mother-in-law

The ugly duckling Is not a duck But he is a lucky duck

What would my life be like If I stopped worrying And trusted God completely? Instead of preparing for the worst And hoping for the best

One would think the earth is flat “Unless” as the Coen brothers put it “round is funny”

At this late juncture All eating is competitive eating But in the world to come All competition will be An excuse for a feast

In East Germany they had a planned economy and an old joke: I pretend to work You pretend to pay me

We used to say Hold the phone Metaphorically Because we were about to say somet… Or because we needed to stop and t…

Negative theology collapsed when it became apparent God was sanguine

One interpretation holds that the… And the Tree of Knowledge of Goo… Are one and the same tree Which makes sense to me Since when Adam and Eve decided t…