Aristocracy failed because it couldn’t keep some of the people happy all of the time Democracy is failing because
We used to have the haves and the have nots But then the haves were further subdivided into the haves and the have to
There was a time when fools managed perceptions in order to manage reality, realists managed perceptions because they couldn’t manage reali…
At bottom God is a brute fact and Satan a brutal fact
You can’t take it with you tells us how to live well But we think it means living forev… and so, we’ve invested in Shell In the hopes that our savings will…
Inevitably my spirit vegetable was rutabaga
No man is an island but plenty live in abandoned towns
I thought they’d finally say Mea culpa But they still just said Me
They used to give me Birthday presents Now they give me A wide berth
Social media– the bureaucracy of the people– is an eternal now where you always have just enough time
I won’t rest ‘til O– prah puts me on the cover of her magazine
I used to pretend that Kafka’s The Trial was my favorite book but these days I bring a courtroom stenographer with me
Nietzsche, who famously never marr… described marriage as a long conve… Had he wed he would have realized it’s actual… a series of brief interrogations
The kingdom of heaven is like a tr… where gentlemen may remove their h… while all others must
Because the Real is unimaginable effective liars exploit what people want to be true– This is known as the Unreal But the opposite of the Unreal
