When people ask me How are you doing? I tell them That’s above my pay grade

Just as in tennis I play to my opponent’s level in relationships

We’ve taken the last ember in the ashes for a glimmer of hope

Many con artists have a moral awakening; even more realize that the only compassionate thing to do is continue the con

A charmed half-life is the time taken to lower your expectations to half their original value

The left believes that the culture war can be won by winning elections The right believes that the culture war can be won

In the official version of my life I love my life In real life I love life itself

When we had bodies they called us extras which was short for extraneous though our negligible status lent a degree of latitude

Human beings need to compete for what they want To ruin human beings try meeting their needs

I don’t have a TV because I would watch it Instead, I watch my mouth

Because the ego mustn’t know its real mission lest it go back on accepting it, this message will self-destruct five seconds before life begins:

We’re not in control so we try to take control which leaves us feeling out of con… But it’s because anything can happ… that we can do anything

Steely Dan sings “I don’t wanna do your dirty work… again and again only once intoning “I foresee terrible trouble

My fellow Americans Where once we shared a collective… We called the will of the people That simultaneously tamed and expr… We have now regressed to the preci…

We have passed from an age of temporary solutions for permanent… consider religion and death– to an era of permanent solutions for temporary…