When success is made mandatory for all it becomes impossible for any

Just because life is good doesn’t mean it isn’t also too much of a good thing

A record sounds the same every time you play it A broken record is intolerable because it isn’t broken, it’s just…

The usual cruelty Is having multiple children And enforcing a hierarchy In order to keep the peace Unusual cruelty

Every time I screw up God says what He has to say and then He says Over and I always think

We confuse freedom for the act of choosing when our frontal lobe has no choice but to choose just as a heart must beat

Past– I know what I want Therefore, I need someone to tell… so I can go ahead and do it Present–

Self-discipline is The only real self-indulgence Everything else is self-abnegation

If human beings are to survive it will be as cyborgs where AI does all the thinking and we supply all the feeling with the caveat that

I will gladly suffer fools for love

When the devil told me “Fuck-up is a noun And so are you” I didn’t know if he meant I’m also a fuck-up

He may have gotten away with mass… But at least we didn’t let him Get away with murder

Obscene Is an institution with a 50.7 bill… Coveting an additional 686 million… To cover two-thirds of its researc… Because the truth is

The difference between the Pax Romana and the Pax Americana is that while all roads lead to Rome

I always wondered why there are several teen archetypes on offer in The Breakfast Club– each with their own exquisite agon… but also the promise of redemption…