It’s hard to quantify change We keep running our equations Adding and subtracting everything… From everything we know about God And the numbers don’t add up–

And just like that the safety of ironic distance gave way to the false intimacy of over-proximi…

I’m not afraid of rejection– Life is a series of rejections Until you learn that Life goes on I’m afraid of abject humiliation

It wasn’t false modesty exactly You might call it un-unpretentious if you were being pretentious

When the ruffian challenges the professional by querying Am I here to amuse you? the professional displays his domi…

Time is money But time stops at the speed of lig… Which means the buck stops, too Making enlightenment the act of ta… For how you’ve spent your time

Why bother keeping score when death assures that things always end in a tie Soon you’ll be able to get rid of death

Mark my wounds, Our words will come back To flaunt us

The truth is always at a disadvant… because while you can harness truth in service of a lie you can’t tell lies

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

For years I sojourned as a humble… Hanging all my hopes On one day emerging as a brilliant… For my moment in the sun Inching ever forward towards the s…

It used to be that We could feed our souls By serving others Or feed our egos By serving ourselves

Since seeing is believing all that we really want is kept out of sight, out of mind leaving everything we think we kno… to the imagination

It’s not that we are past The point of no return But that we the people Have invested our life savings In scorn for our neighbor

In the west Since we can’t control time We just buy more time An approach used elsewhere With equally mixed results