Steely Dan sings “I don’t wanna do your dirty work… again and again only once intoning “I foresee terrible trouble

Power is the ability To maintain your non-negotiables And the world to come Will arrive when we stop trying To negotiate a new deal with God

Because there is no I in lions, if a lion could talk, it couldn’t say I Which is to say, a lion can starve but never lacks,

When the highly educated play dumb and you are dragooned into spelling it out for them know that their obtuse dissembling bespeaks regression to the oral st…

You have a real life if there are no easy solutions You have a real problem if there are no easy solutions but there is an easy way out

You’ll know whether you’re there to make things better or to make yourself feel better by how you react when you’re told you can do better

The sooner we realize that wholeness is impossible the sooner we can redouble our efforts towards obtai…

Your soul is mission control And Houston We have a problem Literally Problem is

I was voluntold to make myself sca… But scarcely do they realize In pretending to give me a choice They have unwittingly given me an… Truth or dare?

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…

I thought I was Playing to the crowd When all along I was getting Played by the crowd The crowd, it turns out

The culture war is a total war burning down everything from sea to shining sea

The smartest gal in the room Is the one who realizes All the adults in the room Are emotional children Behaving like holy terrors

Yes Life is a pain But it is a labor pain

In the New Age everybody knows that everything happens for a reason but nobody knows the reason so, everybody pastes together