In a few years we’ll all look back on liberal democracy and fake laugh

Poets are to their poems As parents are to their children Preparing them for the world Without knowing what they will do

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

You and God are like socks– No matter how far apart you get You are still a pair You and God are also like pants– Even though you are forever one

We are all mistaken in locating the black sheep’s diff… in the color of his fleece when the real distinction is that the other members of the flock

I am a story I tell myself The story is a cover-up The cover-up is always worse than… The crime is merely the will to po… The cover-up is giving away my pow…

The biggest reason I ever did any… Was always my ego Even as a part of me insisted There must be something bigger That part, the heart

Our central moral sentiment– that doing the right thing is its… hasn’t done us much good because through it we live in deni… that in this world

The cogito may be airtight but its reverse– I am, therefore I think– is less certain

Liberalism is a gift That can only be received from Go… Sourced anywhere else It becomes a debt That can never be repaid

There is no mind There is no body There is thinking and there is fee… And I know all too well How you feel

To elide is to join together by omitting The world elides Jews abide

You can’t know what you will decid… But you will know when you have de… You can’t know how you will act on… But you already know what is at st… Everything hangs in the balance;

It’s not just that “Man is wolf to man” It’s that he has always known this about himself and yet

Well at least he died doing something he felt he had no choice about