The soul is an appendix made of wo… and while plenty of people function perfectly well without on… much like the physical appendix– which stores good bacteria
Politics has become another form of showbiz but while the showman should always leave them wanting more the politician knows to
I have a different problem: there are no feelings to express my words
Soft totalitarianism is like shoes That are just tight enough To remain comfortable If you don’t go anywhere
Heads I bite my tongue Tails You cut it off
I always thought it didn’t matter if human beings really had free will as long as they experienced the wo… as if they did;
The funny thing is if you’re continually nervous about getting into a wreck you become a nervous wreck and then
When Mao said “Everything under heaven is in utt… he went on to kill 60 million of h… When Xi Jinping said “Everything under surveillance is…
In the movies they always guess right when it’s time to cut the blue wire or the red wire on the ticking time bomb
The United States’ motto is still In God We Trust but everyone knows that’s come to mean Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
For now American democracy such as it is is still getting the people it deserves
It wasn’t false modesty exactly You might call it un-unpretentious if you were being pretentious
Every story has side effects but the side effects from true sto… may be life threatening
It takes talent to write a hit pie… but anyone can write a puff piece that in thirty years will read as a hit piece
Because we know we must die and that survival depends on belonging we all live in fear