When people spend their whole life Asking for evidence of God They have made the cardinal error Of believing that looking causes f… Mirroring their belief

To those who say they’ll keep working until they die I say don’t die–

It was an open secret that on his day off Sisyphus liked to go downhill skii…

That moment when you reclassify yourself from a mystery to an unsolved mystery

The first half of life: Did I say that? The second half of life: I did say that The end of life:

When Mao said “Everything under heaven is in utt… he went on to kill 60 million of h… When Xi Jinping said “Everything under surveillance is…

You’ll know you’re talking to God When He doesn’t talk back Yet you still have your answer

A movement can only cohere around a shared wish and the left sticks together by collectively wishing that Jews deserve what they get

My favorite plot twists have always been quicksand and amnesia but I have this sinking feeling I’m forgetting something

A sliver of moon follows us home in the car How nice to be fooled

On Fresh Air they always mention that their rock historian lives in France as if he were in exile from rock a… the same way James Joyce wrote ab…

A dissident today is anyone who realizes that since you’re damned if you do damned if you don’t

We ask people How are you doing? because it’s the easiest way to prevent them from actually telling us how they are doing

What is the darkness of evil? It is closing your eyes out of fea… But believing yourself blind When all you need do Is open your eyes

It was all systems go in my search for a new belief syst… until I realized all systems go too far