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

People used to kill the goose that laid the golden egg because they wanted more gold

We can all agree that life is the number one cause of death But no one wants to admit that death is the only cause of ne… Nevertheless, we love our children

They couldn’t have been more obvio… in their preparations for the surp… trusting that I was the type loathe to ruin my own surprise

The baton is a scroll that says– among other things– The road goes on forever Heaven is

We don’t understand our childhoods so we spend our adult lives reenacting them in the hope that an outside observer

Because the ego mustn’t know its real mission lest it go back on accepting it, this message will self-destruct five seconds before life begins:

People want to get rich because they think money will make them happy People want to stay rich because they know that money

In a Hegelian reversal, I couldn’t com– plain but it would help

A grown up is someone who knows the right thing to do and does it anyway

You have your Mr. Fix-It and your Mr. Learn-To-Live-With-It

When we had bodies they called us extras which was short for extraneous though our negligible status lent a degree of latitude

You can’t be free of self-consciousness so you have to be free with self-consciousness; we call this condition

Hunting on your own might make you a lone wolf but thinking for yourself makes you a lone ant

The narcissist is a two—sided coin… Heads, I need you Tails, I hate you– and the more you meet a narcissist… the more they will hate you