When I run out of things to do I write an itinerary: When all else fails fill sandbags to convert

The pleasure in a magic show is wondering how the magician did it

I used to think the way it works i… if it’s true then you believe it Later, I thought if you believe it

Life = Trial by fire Death = Trial by firing squad

Whether or not “art is the proper task of life” the transition to AI-generated synthetic media will complete the debasement of th…

Just as birds regurgitate to feed their young human beings have culture

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

Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s all big stuff.

Nation-states are for the embodied Bodies are for souls Souls need everything in moderatio… Cyberspace is for cyborgs Cyborgs are for real

Until now technology could be understood as an extension of the body’s will to power With AI

That moment when you reclassify yourself from a mystery to an unsolved mystery

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

In the last stage of capitalism the rich will be ascetics

I used to pretend that Kafka’s The Trial was my favorite book but these days I bring a courtroom stenographer with me

Because there is no I in lions, if a lion could talk, it couldn’t say I Which is to say, a lion can starve but never lacks,