The last stage of wes– tern civilization was groupthink without groups

I grew up listening to Barbara St… You don’t bring me flowers anymore and determined I’d never make that… Ten years into marriage my wife sa… Don’t bring me flowers anymore

Like generals husbands are always preparing to f… while their wives are always prepa… to fight the last just war

Coffee is for the middle-aged; we need both to shit and get shit done

It’s important to me to live in a… with museums, big league sports, n… so that I can enjoy staying home Baltimore has a subway I’ve never… When I lived in Los Angeles I ac…

I always thought saying slide trombone was like saying pizza pie until I heard about the valve trombone

In the west Since we can’t control time We just buy more time An approach used elsewhere With equally mixed results

As users of language we give off meaning the same way that plants as users of sunlight give off oxygen

No one seems to see (least of all me) that being all you can be isn’t about clutching superiority– it’s for abjuring mediocrity

I thought I’d crafted a mystique when all I’d rea– lly made were mistakes

If you want to predict the future determine what is most taken for g… and imagine a world without it I predict a future where words will be replaced

A la recherche du temps perdu has been variously translated as A Remembrance of Things Past and In Search of Lost Time

Where once man strove to move mountains now he settles for making them

We think nothing’s shocking since we’ve seen it all when really it’s because we’re blind to the obvious

My wife fixed me with a stare that said Really, what haven’t you done for…