My curated self has asked me for a divorce
In the real world there is no plot to speak of but plot devices everywhere
If things feel prearranged it’s because you’ve already rearranged
We thought it would last forever but in retrospect we were having a high time at low tide when the clam digging was easy and the eating was good
Only a poet Can accurately describe anything More accurately A poet can describe anything Except himself
When I said That’s none of your business they replied Actually, that’s our entire busine…
Rock and roll may be dead but it’s got one of the great corp… like a dead horseshoe crab
In the official version of my life I love my life In real life I love life itself
Negative theology collapsed when it became apparent God was sanguine
If you would remake the world In your own image Then I can only imagine You believe you’ve thought of ever…
Cartoonists always draw the lightb… pointing up so that no one will think it’s a n…
When the highly educated play dumb and you are dragooned into spelling it out for them know that their obtuse dissembling bespeaks regression to the oral st…
In real life we used to say I’ll see your talk and raise you action but that was just too risky Preferring no stakes
But you will always get a second chance to make a false impression
No one seems to see (least of all me) that being all you can be isn’t about clutching superiority– it’s for abjuring mediocrity