Would that my morning toilet were a ritual and not just the muscle memory of a muscle memory
The human brain has 100 trillion synaptic connections which sounds like a lot but it’s only 0.0000000005% of the universe’s 200 billion tril…
A dissident today is anyone who realizes that since you’re damned if you do damned if you don’t
We believe that God is being because it’s our only way to access God as meaning
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
In families adept at keeping open secrets no one expects you to state the obvious
The Cookie Monster is just living up to the name Kermit gave him
Our brains are just big enough to operate eight fingers and two thumbs An octopus is smart but if it also had
At the end of The Sorcerer’s App… as chaos reaches a crescendo the sorcerer appears just in time and sets things back in order Apprenticed to no one,
People are like whales who have gotten sick of plankton
It used to be that We could feed our souls By serving others Or feed our egos By serving ourselves
A man starts out lying for instant gratification Inevitably, this progresses to buy… his unending rationalizations
I’ve now reached the age when anticipation con– sists of nostalgia
Imagine all the things They wouldn’t allow If they were invented now Anything fast: No motorcycles
You can’t burn a bridge when they’ve already dismantled th… to keep you out but you can burn an eternal flame to mark the location
