It feels like I’m writ– ing an unauthorized au– tobiography

Entire lives can be lived waiting for the other shoe to drop although often this just means you’re being crushed at a snail’s…

The first thing you’re taught is t… you can make some of the people drink Coke all of the time and you can make all of the people drink Coke some of the time but

As social animals the central question of our lives asked and answered answered and asked day upon day

The one thing postmodernists know… is that the surest way to control… is to convince people there are no… prompting an endless chain of seco… while provoking so much anxiety

If it’s not anticlimactic it wasn’t worth all the effort

In the face of loss I staved off loss of control by gainsaying a loss for words

The bad news is that liberal societies can only cohere in the face of external enemies The good news is that we will never lack for

If only hate were but bone deep we could bury it with the bones But hate is buried deep in the sou… with which it reincarnates like a perennial crop of invasive…

People don’t generally like instru… because music without words is just math come alive Adding words to music takes it from counting time

The difference between art and rea… is that the artist is doomed to re… the triumphs of the past

People tend to be wrong and through their errors get closer to the truth This is known as freedom The most sacred narratives

It’s not a real collection Unless It’s unsatisfying It’s not real money Until

Our view from the mor– al high ground was blocked by the Mt. Rushmore of golf

In the same Talking Heads song the “road to nowhere” is both a “road to paradise” and the way “they can tell you what to… and “make a fool of you”