Steely Dan sings “I don’t wanna do your dirty work… again and again only once intoning “I foresee terrible trouble

The first thing I fell in love with was her out-of-office notification

It used to be that if you were obscure you had to be able to handle the truth and if you were famous

The B is silent in subtle but spo… B-cause a B-ing B-comes human by saying the quiet… The B-all and end-all Is the B-ginning and the end

My soul is the sole part of me My body makes me one of us My mind is made up Of body and soul– So, just like you, I am

I believe in God and I believe in liberalism The tension between these two beliefs

We’ve gone from treating people as a means to an end to using them as props for pretend

Moses was both the greatest and th… Because he compared himself Not to his fellow man– An act which makes you smaller and… But to God

People keep repeating the same mis… Until they learn their lesson But what if the lesson is that History repeats itself? If you’ve skimmed your Nietzsche

If people tell you what they plan to do and you don’t believe them it’s because pretending they don’t really mean it

You can’t believe without doubt But if you only believe in doubt Then you’re doubting doubt Which is like Exhaling and exhaling

The first half of life Is spent waiting for the inevitabl… But inevitably, you get distracted… Because a watched pot never boils The second half of life

When I was a kid we thought the end of the world was coming any minute via The Button Instead it came a little later

If I’ve learned one thing from Pa… it’s that until I believe in God I will be enslaved to others That would have been enough! But I also learned that

She believed me when I said that my life was based on a true story