The only reason to pursue fame is to forestall the possibility that you’re the kind of person who would die wishing you’d been more famous

My favorite plot twists have always been quicksand and amnesia but I have this sinking feeling I’m forgetting something

Much of life is boring Which is also why Life is so funny

I was an idea man with one good idea and I have no idea why they stole my idea of a good t… when they could just have it

Writing history is hard especially when it’s about the past

It’s not just that The civilization I was born into Is gone– This probably happens To most of history’s long-lived

Marriage is the only place I’m neither feature nor bug but both

When words fail you’re getting close to the truth But we’re just about to talk ourselves into

I can’t guess your age but I can guess your age when you got that tattoo

I still believe that anything is possible It’s just that now nothing would surprise me

During the rodeo clown shortage nobody thought that the rodeo mime… but the mimes surprised everyone distracting the bulls by silently evoking the dignity

As the boat overfilled with refuge… was turned away from the harbor each of the onshore demographic gr… had their own routinized, ruthless… but surrounded by my own

Is it really leading by example when I floss in the office men’s r… after lunch or is this what the Buddhist’s cal… bodhisattva exhibitionism

Some people say They were born too late; I was almost born too soon But then along came the internet Just in time to stop time–

Mother Goose was always considere… a good enough mother Until lately we realized her failure to smother It was unanimous