I’ve now reached the age when anticipation con– sists of nostalgia
Having given up On heaven No one Recognizes hell
It didn’t matter that I’d been scrupulously carbon neutral; my interlocutors persisted until I realized that the desire to make… had left a vast carbon footprint o…
This world is backwards And reverse is the only way forwar… How do we put it in reverse When everything is backwards? By rediscovering our drive
In granting us free will God took the greatest of risks God also made us in His image God risked it all on us Risking it all on Him
The soul is an appendix made of wo… and while plenty of people function perfectly well without on… much like the physical appendix– which stores good bacteria
When I asked Permission to come aboard The ship of fools They said Everything is permitted
I generally find that the only thi… People are less interested in hear… Than what I dreamt about last nig… Is the poem I wrote this morning Which actually makes sense
I always liked making people laugh until my undergraduates told me that it was an abuse of power asym…
When Mao said “Everything under heaven is in utt… he went on to kill 60 million of h… When Xi Jinping said “Everything under surveillance is…
The only reason to pursue fame is to forestall the possibility that you’re the kind of person who would die wishing you’d been more famous
I’m still the kind of person who is shocked that you can run out of gas and run out of luck at the exact same time
One problem with civilization is that the people drawn to power are precisely those who lack it
A memory hole should be just deep enough to bury yourself up to the neck– Any deeper
Much like God created the univers… Where before there was no universe… In this universe we find patterns Where, upon first glance There are no apparent patterns, ju…