Given a choice I’d rather open a restau– rant than my marriage

In becoming a celebrity a person meets the same kind of de… that a tree does in becoming a Christmas tree– embalmed in sugar

The only reason that people wear clothes is because they have language

All plants and animals die But only human life is A near-death experience Immortality, then Wil be the death of man

You can’t burn a bridge when they’ve already dismantled th… to keep you out but you can burn an eternal flame to mark the location

In the same Talking Heads song the “road to nowhere” is both a “road to paradise” and the way “they can tell you what to… and “make a fool of you”

The most useful pawn is the one who believes himself king

Everybody worships something But that something is amiss Hero worship is one thing But heroin’s an abyss Invisible from the One Ring

When all politics were still local to exert power you were required to go where the people were gather… In cyberspace all politics are nod… and to exert power you require the…

Most lives are lived in service to one institution or another but only very recently has this begun to feel

When I started telling my employe… Apologies in advance! they still felt compelled by decor… No apologies needed which was how I ended exploitation

If it’s not anticlimactic it wasn’t worth all the effort

I know how it must sound– A two-year long two—week lockdown— But let me expound And dish the lowdown: What we fear’s a hoedown

There’s a groove I’ve been going… just between heroic and anti-heroi… that’s perfectly romantic But betwixt the truth-teller and the soothsayer

Optimists dance the two-step: It’s going to get worse before it gets better Pessimists plod