All self-help books boil down to this: You can’t fold a piece of paper more than 7 times but if you could fold it 103 times

Hook-up apps have given intimacy all the allure of an oil change

The American cure for the boredom of meaninglessness is not to pursue meaning but to outpace boredom which is why our mass nihilism

In order to live I can’t die (but you can) In order to live and let live I must (eventually) die

When you obey men They use it to control you When you obey God You use it to control yourself

Mother Goose was always considere… a good enough mother Until lately we realized her failure to smother It was unanimous

The only possible form of self-awareness is knowing what you want to be true

It was when Socrates ate the frui… that he added this second line of… I know that my wife knows everythi…

Life is defined by failure But you can transcend failure If you die trying

The brain is pattern-seeking And it will keep making the same m… Until it sees the pattern for itse…

Somehow we evolved to love a challenge but hate a challenge to our thinking

All plants and animals die But only human life is A near-death experience Immortality, then Wil be the death of man

One problem with civilization is that the people drawn to power are precisely those who lack it

Maybe We’re all Late bloomers

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