Life was once a high-wire act without a net Now it’s tennis without a net
The trick is to craft a conformism so elaborate that you convince yourself it’s bespoke
The distance between zero and one is infinitely greater than the distance between one and infinity
All fiction Is serious fiction Because all fiction Is life and death Everything on the internet
“Did you know that your brain regularly fills in for missing information, much of the time without you even knowing that this is going on?” “(I)t happens so very quickly and without con...
The mean streets of easy street Lack any meaning– To get there, try going crazy But everybody knows You’d be crazy to try
You have your Mr. Fix-It and your Mr. Learn-To-Live-With-It
We don’t understand our childhoods so we spend our adult lives reenacting them in the hope that an outside observer
When given the command “Explain yourself” A believer is someone who answers “I have no explanation” In order to explain everything
The lie you chose to believe Always contains the truth That has chosen you The lie is comforting Because the truth is disturbing
People don’t have beliefs, they ha… beliefs are just how we relate to… More simply: I am a relationship to desire
If we insist It’s not a competition It becomes A war If we admit
One person can never predict the future but two people can if they get married This is a clue
The opposite of failure Isn’t success It’s epic failure
There’s a groove I’ve been going… just between heroic and anti-heroi… that’s perfectly romantic But betwixt the truth-teller and the soothsayer
