A leader attracts a following The following attracts a crowd The crowd mobs the leader The leader forms a mob The mob goes mental

The realist doesn’t look at clouds… that describes the escapist The realist looks at clouds and se… from her childhood

While others await the second coming my own second shortcoming (the first– keeping the peace

Being human beings Pacifists are just as obsessed With wielding power As everybody else And just as pathological as those

Now you only get to choose which hill you’re going to comply on

I didn’t start consistently moonwa… until they required us to wear Fit… to qualify for our employee health…

My utopia is a dystopia where I get to say I told you so

Putin lost his mind then he lost his war then he lost his job or Putin dropped the mask

Self-discipline is The only real self-indulgence Everything else is self-abnegation

It’s almost impossible to tell the difference between self-effacement and self-abasement In the former he stays down to earth

My house built in the 1920s still has a TV antenna like a tattoo you got in early mid… with which you’ve come to have

All of our choices Come down to this: We can fear God Or we can fear death

When I sallied forth to share my… just one voice in the wild multipl… They told me to go fly a kite; it seemed that’s just life in the… Then I recalled as it began to ta…

When postmodern nihilism governs w… Western elites govern by playing i… Because nothing is worth the risk

Life’s unhappiest surprises always come from those you’ve known forever without ever knowing the score but now you will