The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published

You’re only a real materialist If you demand that believers Do the impossible And then get angry When they prove you wrong

It all clicked for me when I realized that Hebrew School Is a party school

Just because life is good doesn’t mean it isn’t also too much of a good thing

I remember saying to myself Okay, this is it the moment of truths

Solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punishment which is why they lock the cell but if they put you in solitary confinement

American Express changed its slog… “Don’t leave home without it” to “Don’t live life without it” in acknowledgement that

It’s almost impossible to tell the difference between self-effacement and self-abasement In the former he stays down to earth

“Democracy is the worst form of go… Except for all those other forms t… Since all other forms involve deat… And democracy merely involves symb… But democracy has an illness

Takeoff always happens just as we are running out of runway

In theory rule by consensus sounds more democratic but in practice it leads to hung juries

People need to be a part of someth… And light is both a particle and a… Surfing, then, is a mystical union… But the internet is a tsunami And surfing the web a death wish

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

I thought the Protestant work eth… I saw all the lazy rivers in peopl… until I noticed they were each swi… against the current

You have to do the right thing aut… At the same time you are doing it… This seems impossible because No one has ever quite done it Which is why you might call it