We had a perfect plan for putting the genie back in the bottle but to get the genie out we had shattered the bottle
When I run out of things to do I write an itinerary: When all else fails fill sandbags to convert
The conceit of individualism was that you could have a type without even wondering if you might be a type
In the past they randomly distributed blanks amongst the firing squad so that you’d never know if you were really executing enemy…
A class marker is always written in permanent marker; in a classless society the permanent marker
Somewhere between 27% and 53% of… none of which students can legally… is wasted Let’s split the difference and call it 40%
People are like whales who have gotten sick of plankton
The older I get the less I pause for effect This is because the clock is ticking and I’d rather not waste my time
Human beings have always used the symbolic to navigate the real; until recently we did so by imagining that the symbolic is rea… whereas scientists imagine that
Contemporary pacifism attempts to… One full fathom deep But repression is just short for The return of the repressed So, you can tell a modern pacifist…
The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published
As an American I have a posteriori knowledge that Americans pretend without reason to a priori knowledge of the other
I used to pretend that Kafka’s The Trial was my favorite book but these days I bring a courtroom stenographer with me
The devil’s one job Is making you an offer You can’t refuse And there’s only one thing The devil can’t offer
We’re always free to serve ourselves– Liberation is the process of freely choosing to serve others