If I said– The worst thing you can say about… is that he always plays it safe– then he sounds like a perfectly ni… But when I say–

My constant sense of dread Was just a case Of perpetual stage fright In a never-ending performance of c… Now that I’ve dropped the act

Beginner is talking yourself into doing what you are going to do anyway Advanced is talking yourself out of doing

Our civilization is a bureaucracy And a bureaucracy’s raison d’etre Is to replicate itself Replicate, of course Means to repeat through duplicatio…

Imagine the disappointment when we… both wearing Velcro singlets but each fashioned from the softer… with nary a hook between us

The cover-up is always worse when there’s no crime

God took the risk and made human beings to add meaning to His creation God gambled everything because this could mean anything

When you come in peace I fall to pieces And then collect myself For the gathering storm

I was afraid of death which is to say afraid to live until I chose my hill to die on For in deciding where

Riddle me this: The Riddler commits crimes of the… By loving each and every one of us… But always leaves clues behind In the form of a riddle

The truth will set you free but consensus will get you academi… i.e., tenure

I was always trying to find The signal in the noise Until I found God And discovered that It’s all signal

If you count the rings on a tree stump it will tell you the cost of doing business

This isn’t the best of all possible worlds but God does His best with what we give Him to work with

In real life we used to say I’ll see your talk and raise you action but that was just too risky Preferring no stakes