We thought we had finally notched… by confronting Father Time with the paradox of our times when self-defeating is the new win… but we can’t win for losing
Insanity is thinking you can ever get what you want and devoting your life to getting it
No one is exactly sure why God switched from a pass/fail syst… to having you grade yourself but there have been quite a lot of B-plusses flying ar…
Every story has side effects but the side effects from true sto… may be life threatening
There is only one way to claim moral authority: Convincing others that they are the authority in their own life And based on exhaustive research
All art’s politi– cal but some art is more re– ligious than others
The pleasure of a new discovery is only exceeded by the satisfaction of making a recommendation
In the movies they always guess right when it’s time to cut the blue wire or the red wire on the ticking time bomb
Charles Horton Cooley said “I am not what I think I am and I am not what you think I am; I am what I think you think I am” Before the like button
The opposite of modest isn’t immodest, it’s honest The opposite of immodest is confident
Solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punishment which is why they lock the cell but if they put you in solitary confinement
In East Germany they had a planned economy and an old joke: I pretend to work You pretend to pay me
They let Potter get away with any… but somehow I get expelled for flo… that a wizard can’t have the same… even though zero (magic) is only half as large as double ze…
It’s easy to choose between good and bad So, when there are no good choices most people take the easy way out
The only way to avoid giving the man who has everything more of the same is to give him nothing