People will only tell the truth when they think they can get away with it For example, perjury laws only wor… by publicly threatening jail time
I’ve been racking my brains for the perfect response to accusations of perfectionism only to land at a conundrum: a confession of false modesty is
You’re only truly clever When the devil says “Live forever If only from God you’ll sever” And you reply “Never For God is always my lever
Most people can get away with sweeping a few things under the ru… but when I started working at the… I couldn’t help noticing how the rugs looked like
As a child Whenever I played Ms. Pac Man On my Atari 2600 I dialed the settings down From four ghosts to one
My wife sleeps on her back while I sleep in the mis– take prone position
Optimism Hope without optimism Hope against hope Unconditional surrender Noncontingent being
It’s a lot easier for men to dwell in the mystery of what a woman wants than to acknowledge what it is exactly that
Updating Yeats’s “The best lack all conviction While the worst are full of passio… I’d say The best lack all conviction
You can cash in on your talent You can cash in on your good looks You can cash in on your hard work You can cash in on your good luck You can even cash in on all four
The kingdom of heaven is like a tr… where gentlemen may remove their h… while all others must
It’s said you become what you hate; I hate losing things
Learning how to walk is learning how to fall forward while remembering to catch yoursel… again and again Walking is the illusion
What else can I say? Is for most people a rhetorical qu… But the poet takes it literally Making it the exception that prove… That everything is a metaphor for…
We’re always free to serve ourselves– Liberation is the process of freely choosing to serve others
