If you instill children with self-esteem before they’ve fought and won confidence you’ll make of them cowards

I’ve never been one who just takes… I’ve only been able to see if I s… Now I’m middle-aged, the whole wo… My rose-colored glasses have fast… Turned into reading glasses throug…

I don’t care about birds but I thrill when the squirrels can’t get to the birdseed

It wasn’t false modesty exactly You might call it un-unpretentious if you were being pretentious

The difference between God and ma… When we get up to our usual shenan… God always says Frankly my dear, I do give a damn

The world is a cast of characters Social media is a caste of caricatures

I often find myself telling God That according to the terms of the… You get what you need God insists I come to terms with the implicati…

I finally realized that when Smokey Bear says Only you can prevent forest fires Only I really believe him

First, we learn how to walk Then we learn how to walk away For many of us This takes the rest of our lives But if we never give up

It was always an intriguing though… to imagine knowing the date of you… until AI in a thought experiment of its own reimagined death

All consciousness is false consciousness but some consciousnesses are easier to fake

Ours is a culture of low tolerance masquerading as a culture of low risk tolerance

Some people say They were born too late; I was almost born too soon But then along came the internet Just in time to stop time–

When you cut the umbilical cord children remain reliant on their p… until they start to become self-re… by attaching to their friends as a step towards the full self-re…

The bell curve is the Serpent With the lump in the middle Who ate Adam and Eve By convincing us we’re all mostly… But we’ve proven indigestible