You can spend your life trying to understand why bad things happen to good people only to learn that good people do bad things

He should have said: If everything is permitted then God does not exist

Frequently, God’s light is like sun glare, telling me to slow the heck down

Self-flattery will get you everywhere but there’s nowhere left to go

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

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

In my experience it’s not necessarily true that one plus one must equal two The sum is nearly always

The human condition is either thinking that we’re free when we’re actually held captive or thinking that we’re captive when we’re actually free

All self-help books boil down to this: You can’t fold a piece of paper more than 7 times but if you could fold it 103 times

Human beings have always used the symbolic to navigate the real; until recently we did so by imagining that the symbolic is rea… whereas scientists imagine that

I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right not to mean it

If you cut off an arm you are left with a stump to which you affix a prosthetic If you cut off a face you are left with a mask

Our glass Is an hourglass And whether it is half-full Or half-empty Time is running out

I thought I’d flown the co-op by living off the grid And yet I’m still a chicken only now I’m on the skids So I’ve up and joined a commune

If God is dead we get eternal recurrence, when things just keep happening ov… and transference, where every authority figure