I always wondered why there are several teen archetypes on offer in The Breakfast Club– each with their own exquisite agon… but also the promise of redemption…
After fifteen years of marriage I thought by now I’d have made partner
We don’t understand our childhoods so we spend our adult lives reenacting them in the hope that an outside observer
The human condition is either thinking that we’re free when we’re actually held captive or thinking that we’re captive when we’re actually free
I don’t have any delusions of grandeur; I have delusions of posthumous grandeur that would retroactively nullify
When the doyennes of progressive a… “From the river to the sea is an a… human rights, and peaceful coexist… Bernard-Henri Levy helpfully tran… “‘From the river to the sea’, whic…
Life is defined by failure But you can transcend failure If you die trying
The soul is like water The body a glass And a dead body is just A glass from which All the water has evaporated
In Mexico City men never wear shorts and if that’s where my anxiety dreams are set they could represent
Nothing is more anathema to our ti… than a phrase that was still secon… just five minutes ago: May the best man win To understand everything we’ve los…
X marks the spot where cyborgs will receive their o– ver-the-air updates
It was all systems go in my search for a new belief syst… until I realized all systems go too far
At the end of The Sorcerer’s App… as chaos reaches a crescendo the sorcerer appears just in time and sets things back in order Apprenticed to no one,
Because it’s so hellacious transmuting lead into gold the people pleaser finds it heavenly to degrade gold into lead
Secure in my authenticity I thought I’d avoided that trap which had ensnared so many of my g… the safety of ironic distance– until I realized that