I used to pretend that Kafka’s The Trial was my favorite book but these days I bring a courtroom stenographer with me
The quartermaster is responsible f… and nothing more Some of you will be content to half-ass the rest of it Some of you will be willing to ris…
The only thing harder in sports Than hitting a baseball Is writing This maxim applies to every human… Especially writing
Exhausted by the pendulum swings b… feeling overwhelmed and disappoint… we’ve taken elements from Too much, too soon and
Mid-life is when you realize you’re in a clown car The end of life is about accepting that of all the clowns
In his capstone work Freud, with pessimistic pith Said it all in his title: Civilization and Its Discontents At the risk of saying less by addi…
1. Make so much money you could he… 2. Remind yourself that “there’s n… 3. Tell yourself you need to feed… 4. Eat like kings
In fragile civilizations Power is used to acquire status And status is just for decoration In resilient civilizations Self-sacrifice is recognized as th…
Upon dying peacefully in my sleep surrounded by family after a long, prosperous life the Grim Reaper looked at me and… I’m glad to see you’ve arrived saf…
The fog of war is not knowing what’s coming next The fog of peace is thinking you know
Nero fiddles while Rome burns? Fiddle-de-dee! Nero riddles but Rome never learn…
We are all of us unreliable narrators Some of us just make a living at it
As a child Whenever I played Ms. Pac Man On my Atari 2600 I dialed the settings down From four ghosts to one
The fog is so thick now We’re buried up to our necks in it Our bodies out of sight And out of mind Making the ground beneath our feet
Social media is proof of concept That you can please Some of the people all of the time And this starts to feel mighty pow… But this feeling is a forgetting
