The first and most important task when you’re joining a non-hierarch… is finding out who’s really in charge The first and most important task

Because I never learned anything… I learned the hard way that it’s the only way to learn anything at all

And just like that the safety of ironic distance gave way to the false intimacy of over-proximi…

Some people say They were born too late; I was almost born too soon But then along came the internet Just in time to stop time–

Blood is thicker than water Unless it’s blood From a turnip

I don’t have any delusions of grandeur; I have delusions of posthumous grandeur that would retroactively nullify

The older that I get, the more wanton lust looks like wanting for love

In 2019 KLM Airlines began advertising that you should take the train instead; it felt like being asked to open up the marriage

The first half of life: If it ain’t broke Don’t fix it The second half of life: If you can’t fix it

It’s not that we’ve abolished death but we’ve made it a mere formality

Thinking of happiness as the meaning of life is like thinking of sugar as the meaning of food

Like many of you All my life I’ve been trying to predict What will happen when The unstoppable force

When someone says Ask me anything You wonder what you’re not allowed… But that’s exactly what you can’t… Because they don’t know

Bureaucracy’s biggest sin Is malingering as democracy– Bureaucracy sees the will of the p… As a form of madness But pretends to follow the will of…

Our souls have a body Our bodies have five senses And we all have a sixth sense That there is no sixth sense Yet we’re left with a sense of sel…