One problem with civilization is that the people drawn to power are precisely those who lack it

As ever There is the easy way And the hard way The hard way Is being condemned to a freedom

Like Coke for Coca-Cola, Mr. Pibb is short for Mr. Pibb, ABD

Leave children to their own device… And they will say Let’s play Give kids devices And they’ll say

If new car smell lasts forever you will not be able to smell it

Guilt is a trap Locking you in The desire of others But God has a plan To set you free

Power is the ability To maintain your non-negotiables And the world to come Will arrive when we stop trying To negotiate a new deal with God

Where once I feared death Now I fear that Death will be anticlimactic

We don’t understand our childhoods so we spend our adult lives reenacting them in the hope that an outside observer

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”

Just as the yin-yang symbol portrays both dominant sections with a small portion of the opposi… lack sows an abundance of desire and abundance lacks lack

At bottom God is a brute fact and Satan a brutal fact

Life is a talent show where most everyone is doing bad versions of easy impressions

Optimists dance the two-step: It’s going to get worse before it gets better Pessimists plod

If you’ve seen one mirror you’ve seen them all