In life We all have brushes with death Leaving wounds That either become scars Or beauty marks

Human beings are that species For whom No Is considered a cryptic response While

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

Everyone knows it could go either way but no one believes it could have gone either way So we tell ourselves

Given the current nostalgia for shared reality we shouldn’t forget that peak shared reality was mutually assured destruction

As ever There is the easy way And the hard way The hard way Is being condemned to a freedom

The last thing Tony Robbins ever… You’re rather sanguine for somebod… he’s an incurable Pollyanna

In the movies they always guess right when it’s time to cut the blue wire or the red wire on the ticking time bomb

Everyone looks out for their own f… This is normal But looking out for your own first by dehumanizing the other for looking out for their own firs…

I have not loved my neighbor as my… but I have consistently greeted hi… with an insouciant bonhomie

Lunch is born free but everywhere is in chain restaurants

Modern research methods have detec… that there’s no such thing as a ba… leaving scientists puzzled as to w… the whole bunch is still spoiled

In theory rule by consensus sounds more democratic but in practice it leads to hung juries

If you cut off an arm you are left with a stump to which you affix a prosthetic If you cut off a face you are left with a mask

What if I could just do no wrong Then surely, I’d still get to bel… Perforce, I did nothing And found myself bluffing Whenever I needed to be strong