How much Are you willing to sacrifice For what You cannot have

A heart can only beat in synch with another A broken heart still beats because God keeps the time– just as He keeps us–

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

I was never one for playing the field but I was really good at standing on the sideline worrying over my equipment

Peanut butter’s not very good by itself but chocolate is Because I’m not very religious it’s important for me

If you don’t believe I’m the Led Zeppelin of poetry just wait ‘til you see my poems go over like a lead balloon

Updating Yeats’s “The best lack all conviction While the worst are full of passio… I’d say The best lack all conviction

The only ones Who antisemites hate more than Je… Are Jews who defend themselves There is a name For their belief system:

My wife wears her heart on her sle… Yet remains a total mystery– How can she be so sure? I’m sure I don’t know But sure enough

The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published

Keep your friends close your enemies closer and your neighbor closest

Our faith will be tested And this test isn’t pass/fail; It’s life and death– Life is our test, Death is our grade,

People are only willing to wait and see when they already know what they are looking for

In a nice turn of phrase Freud called the process by which… The dream work In that process, of course My wishes are fulfilled