Jews learned to read between the l… when time and again they were granted a lifetime membe… only to find that their membership could still be lapsed

There are only two real superpowers: unacknowledged plagiarism and begrudging cooperation

In a Hegelian reversal, I couldn’t com– plain but it would help

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

The soul is like water The body a glass And a dead body is just A glass from which All the water has evaporated

I thought I was Playing to the crowd When all along I was getting Played by the crowd The crowd, it turns out

If the truth were merely regarded as false it might still have found its purpose but once degraded into

The pleasure in a magic show is wondering how the magician did it

I’ve reached the age where getting ready for bed is like preparing for a spacewalk

Blathering on about the threat of the other is a means of slathering on the notion that blocks the light: If I am not what you lack

Male materialists rarely make for marriage material because in their insistence that life’s not fair they further insist

The banyan tree grows up around a host tree which eventually dies leaving the banyan hollow at its c…

I don’t believe in myself So, I must control God I believe in God So, I can control myself

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