Chaucer said All good things must come to an en… Which was widely If begrudgingly Accepted as a good thing

Paradoxically To approach perfection You need to make Really big mistakes Ironically

When Plan A is not having a plan Plan B is not having an exit strategy

I was the first ever lobster discovered in the wild with a rubber band around my claw clamping it shut

The bad news is that liberal societies can only cohere in the face of external enemies The good news is that we will never lack for

Capitalists and Socialists Have two things in common: Neither of them wants socialism And they both want control and pow… Capitalists want to make lots of m…

Secure in my authenticity I thought I’d avoided that trap which had ensnared so many of my g… the safety of ironic distance– until I realized that

We can’t fool God But we can fool ourselves into thi… We fooled God The surest way to do so Is to fool ourselves into thinking

If you fear death You will try to control God By controlling others To prevent them from killing you If you fear God

People don’t generally like instru… because music without words is just math come alive Adding words to music takes it from counting time

Unlike the Americans and the Engl… who are divided by a common langua… the Americans and the Parisians are divided by a common symptom: disappointment

Asked to account for his success w… he explained that he drives his ca… like he won it on The Price Is R…

Mid-life crisis: the failure to start hoping you don’t get what you want

We’d all been taught As the temps got hot That all was for naught And that was our lot So, we’d cashed out and bought

We had a perfect plan for putting the genie back in the bottle but to get the genie out we had shattered the bottle