If you start with being, then Being is meaningless But meaning is never without being Because meaning always comes first

More and more it feels as if we are teetering between 1984 and… but 84-33=51 bringing us to 1951 the actual lone year in question

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

When the cat’s away the mice will be paralyzed by all the choices

Mistakes are inev– itable; owning them is inestimable

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

Politics has become another form of showbiz but while the showman should always leave them wanting more the politician knows to

The male gaze sees all or nothing unless it’s blindfolded– then it sees both

I don’t meet many people with a mind like a steel trap Instead, the really smart people tend to have minds like trawling n… to catch the really big fish

Democracy was superseded not by a police state but by a witness protection progra…

Our big mistake is thinking a leap of faith is a tandem parachute jump where God pulls the parachute and you float gently down

Takeoff always happens just as we are running out of runway

Every writer has mistaken his shotgun for a rifle– He may hit where he aims but he will also surely miss In discharging his will to power

Somewhere between 27% and 53% of… none of which students can legally… is wasted Let’s split the difference and call it 40%

Because bodies make a fart joke of… etiquette used to dictate that whe… passed gas at, e.g., a dinner part… the polite thing to do was to pret… the fart never happened