None of us can see further than our own noses but Pinocchio can see further than the rest of us

If you can catch someone lying to… you can figure out what they want… If you can catch yourself lying to… you can figure out your own desire The former can make you rich

In the world to come The United Nations will finally r… If you can’t beat ‘em Join ‘em

Smile and the whole world smiles with yo… Laugh and the whole world smiles with yo… Cry

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…

If I were going to rephrase the O… I’d say I believe in God because There’s no better explanation And if I were going to re-explain…

You know the (re)normalization of… is in full swing when the New Yor… justifies its publication of a cro… in the shape of a swastika on the start date of Chanukah

The biggest risk of immortality is the lack of risk Chances are you’ll be bored to dea… for all eternity

All the games people play Are iterations of the same game: Playing along Playing along is a language game And the only way to win the game

Lao Tse said of the Tao that “You can use it any way you want” Jacques Lacan further insisted th… you should only use it the way you… when he said

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

My matchmaker couldn’t find me any… but she suggested I go to the bing… and focus on the woman who played the most cards per game

Self-discipline is The only real self-indulgence Everything else is self-abnegation

I believe in the great man theory of history because the good man theory of history is so obviously false

On business trips to Moscow I never wear my three piece suit