You cannot make people want What they do not want And wanting it on their behalf When you secretly want what they w… Is a selfish wish that your dreams…
We are sleeping on God And our slumber is What keeps God up at night Worried we won’t make it home Where the heart is
The Fed has one lever to pull– interest rates– to keep all of us consuming
Early on a Friday morning Just before I awakened My rabbi said, in a dream So, this is the way the Torah wor… But before he could explain
The question isn’t: Why is there something rather than nothing? It’s: Why does it mean something
Why would they still offer A penny for our thoughts When they can buy in bulk
It used to be that everybody had t… But now everybody has the same kin… Which means nobody has any kinks Leaving us all with the emptiness Of giving and receiving pain
What I lack in subtlety I make up for in volume
There used to be two types of peop… Those who wanted to Go ahead and get it over with And those who wanted to postpone t… This enabled some degree of self-s…
“Democracy is the worst form of go… Except for all those other forms t… Since all other forms involve deat… And democracy merely involves symb… But democracy has an illness
In the beginning God said Let there be light A week later In the Garden of Eden
The ill-informed Regret to inform you That knowledge is dour But groupthink is power
The American cure for the boredom of meaninglessness is not to pursue meaning but to outpace boredom which is why our mass nihilism
If we insist It’s not a competition It becomes A war If we admit
For those who are real– ly asking, the truth is al– ways multi-tasking