Chapter 1- Defense Mechanisms, an… We all defend ourselves– If you are unprepared to defend yo… It just means that Your defense is unconscious

When they shut down Ringling Bros… a down on his luck clown looked into a second career as a m… but was informed that the mimes were only accepting applications f…

The fatal mistake Is taking his weakness For kindness

We treat life as if Postponing the inevitable When we should be busy Preparing for the inestimable

My self-care plan includes a cheat day when I get to go to church

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

I may not be the man who has everything but I’m the man who knows what to get for the man who has everything

Our civilization has gotten around God’s injunction to be our brother… by being our little brother’s book…

We spend our whole lives going in… Our mistake is believing that we’r… When we’re always either Slowly spiraling upwards Or caught in a downward spiral

You can’t take it with you tells us how to live well But we think it means living forev… and so, we’ve invested in Shell In the hopes that our savings will…

The culture war is a secret weapon in the class war which the haves use to keep the have nots

It was only after The social media firestorm Had burned our civilization down That we rose from the ashes Like a phoenix

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

Democracy is a game of bridge where each coalition must partner… and going for broke requires not just suicidal risk but a suicide pact,

When civilization was still buildi… deconstruction was all the rage Now that everything we’ve built is… rage is all the rage