A people pleaser pretends to live in Youtopia but really resides in Myopia because all he can see is what he needs from you

It’s not that you’re jeal– ous, but that you guard your jeal– ousy jealously

Early on a Friday morning Just before I awakened My rabbi said, in a dream So, this is the way the Torah wor… But before he could explain

In my experience it’s not necessarily true that one plus one must equal two The sum is nearly always

All forms of certainty are mutations of knowing that you must die which is why the true believer is always the most likely

My constant sense of dread Was just a case Of perpetual stage fright In a never-ending performance of c… Now that I’ve dropped the act

Science was happily letting the cat out of the bag until Schrodinger’s Cat was found in and out of the bag at the same time

It’s not that we are past The point of no return But that we the people Have invested our life savings In scorn for our neighbor

You have to do the right thing aut… At the same time you are doing it… This seems impossible because No one has ever quite done it Which is why you might call it

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

My dad was a very religious man He always told me You’ve made your bed now you’ve got to not eat in it

A heart can only beat in synch with another A broken heart still beats because God keeps the time– just as He keeps us–

You can’t break the chain of events but you can break the chain of custody for the chain of events

You can neither know nor control t… But you can follow it And as you follow the truth You will come to know How to control yourself

For years I sojourned as a humble… Hanging all my hopes On one day emerging as a brilliant… For my moment in the sun Inching ever forward towards the s…