The trick is to craft a conformism so elaborate that you convince yourself it’s bespoke

Because I was both my private and public self I was neither and my trail went cold from there But now that there are neither

There are only two real superpowers: unacknowledged plagiarism and begrudging cooperation

Don’t talk to strangers; Sing with them

Saying Get out of your comfort zone to an American is like telling a turtle to get out of its shell

More and more it feels as if we are teetering between 1984 and… but 84-33=51 bringing us to 1951 the actual lone year in question

If a tree falls in the forest and your husband is there does it make a sound

God doesn’t make mistakes But He lets us make mistakes Which, unless I’m mistaken Means there’s no mistaking us for… But being mistake prone

In person we can struggle for equality Online we’ve already achieved

Looking for signs of intelligent l… We imagine their supremely advance… Like somnolent caterpillars Dreaming up fabulous cocoons of th…

Where once it was widely understoo… That the only way to defeat evil Is by defeating it Which is always possible because God is in control

The fog of war is not knowing what’s coming next The fog of peace is thinking you know

I believe in God and I believe in liberalism The tension between these two beliefs

What was it? It was fun. Where did it go? It’s run out. You mean it will be right back?

And just like that the safety of ironic distance gave way to the false intimacy of over-proximi…