When I was standing in the shallow end I really believed I was all in only later coming to realize

But you will always get a second chance to make a false impression

What if I could just do no wrong Then surely, I’d still get to bel… Perforce, I did nothing And found myself bluffing Whenever I needed to be strong

Life can seem meaningless But I’ve found that Meaning is never lifeless

When a woman chooses her mate His first real test Is whether he accepts her dare To propose If he does, we already know her an…

Your ego never knows it’s there Until you greet it Which you do By addressing the other

The three day seminar culminated with walking across smooth sea glass and still cutting our feet

We subtract to find the difference But at bottom There is no difference Leaving it up to us To make a difference

A civilization can die From a variety of causes– Famine, conquest, madness, etc. In succumbing to boredom Ours will be the first

Aristocracy failed because it couldn’t keep some of the people happy all of the time Democracy is failing because

In a nice turn of phrase Freud called the process by which… The dream work In that process, of course My wishes are fulfilled

In the official version of my life I love my life In real life I love life itself

It didn’t matter that I’d been scrupulously carbon neutral; my interlocutors persisted until I realized that the desire to make… had left a vast carbon footprint o…

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

If my wife could re-draft she says she’d still take me but only after trading back to the second round