China’s zero-covid policy zeroes in on ideology in order to zero out reality Americans, too, have a zero percen… making justice a total zero

Ours is a culture of low tolerance masquerading as a culture of low risk tolerance

America’s belief system– The show must go on– comes into focus when you suspend disbelief Because it’s not about justice

Were I not happily married to my Jewish bride I would have happily lived out the rest of my days none the wiser

The best way to control somebody Is to divide the mind from the bod… Because the body is where the soul…

Our civilization is like an egg– It can withstand enormous pressure at the top (for the obvious reasons) and bottom

You can’t be free of self-consciousness so you have to be free with self-consciousness; we call this condition

We’re told “Never give way on your desire!” even as we learn that “Desire is always the desire of th… Suffice to say,

The liberal who makes an illiberal… inevitably wants to have it both w… thereby tightening his own double… I must be free to have power over… but

There’s a groove I’ve been going… just between heroic and anti-heroi… that’s perfectly romantic But betwixt the truth-teller and the soothsayer

For those who are real– ly asking, the truth is al– ways multi-tasking

All raw deals Are some version of the following: If we screw up You’ll keep your mouth shut Because if you draw attention to i…

The Real is meaningless but doesn’t lack meaning The Symbolic is meaningful but can lack all meaning We can only navigate

If you want to ruin a man give him what he wants– This is the devil’s only secret

Faced with a forced choice The agnostic feigns ignorance For if you ask a woman to marry yo… And she says I don’t know