You’ll know you’re but a prop In someone else’s mise en scene When, after the photo op And the choir’s said amen You’re left to close up shop

It’s always a bad idea To admit you have no idea Put another way: No idea is a bad idea You get the idea

The last stage of wes– tern civilization was groupthink without groups

Failure to pay the narcissistic wa… results in a fit of rage that cannot be assuaged short of an all against all rampag…

No sooner were the gates free of b… than we’d paired off and squared off as fascists vs. totalitarians And as for the dissidents not spoi…

God is the storm un– til He becomes your shelter from the storm. Amen

In a great leap forward Nanotech reduced life To avoiding death By turning life Into a video game

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

People need to be a part of someth… And light is both a particle and a… Surfing, then, is a mystical union… But the internet is a tsunami And surfing the web a death wish

If a time traveler got out of his… Here and now He’d surely say “You cannot be serious” Because serious people

The central paradox of our broken world is known through the feeling of unsurprised disappointment Hope is the belief

All art’s politi– cal but some art is more re– ligious than others

As a start Put your mouth where your money is… This is called telling the truth But, of course Telling the truth

If you’re going to take sick leave… take FMLA

When I put a period at the end of my text message it means that