The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published
The hardest thing to face is that your dreams won’t come tru… unless your fears come true first
We have passed from an age of temporary solutions for permanent… consider religion and death– to an era of permanent solutions for temporary…
You’re only allowed to define yourself by what you’re against (anti-fascist, anti-Zionist, etc.) and what you’ve come after
Peanut butter’s not very good by itself but chocolate is Because I’m not very religious it’s important for me
Being human beings Pacifists are just as obsessed With wielding power As everybody else And just as pathological as those
When they locked down the third pl… (Houses of worship) And made the first two places (Home and work) Into one place
The mean streets of easy street Lack any meaning– To get there, try going crazy But everybody knows You’d be crazy to try
The dictatorship of the professori… uses neologisms to prevent counter elocution and to speed the transition to authentic sophism and the
Free speech is when you can say anything you want as long as you don’t really believe it
So, how did we survive? We felt God’s Presence OMG, we would have never thought…
Initially, as you approach hell it feels like you’re getting a warm welcome
In theory rule by consensus sounds more democratic but in practice it leads to hung juries
Thanks to QR codes you can sign-in without your signature much as for some time now your phone has enabled you
Rock and roll may be dead but it’s got one of the great corp… like a dead horseshoe crab