Soft totalitarianism is like shoes That are just tight enough To remain comfortable If you don’t go anywhere
Losing what you never had is only possible when you look for it exactly where it never was
I always liked making people laugh until my undergraduates told me that it was an abuse of power asym…
We’re hearing a lot of talk About saving democracy As if we were still A civilization ruled by a majority Which respects the rights of the m…
It’s counterintuitive but refusing to make hard choices only to see them made on your beha… by the loudest voices still counts as being hoisted by y…
When things were easy going it was easy to believe you were on the up and up But when the going got tough suddenly you were going
I used to pretend that Kafka’s The Trial was my favorite book but these days I bring a courtroom stenographer with me
Did we stop playing the long game because it is the wrong game or is it only the wrong game because we’ve long since stopped p… Or is asking that question more of…
Nietzsche, who famously never marr… described marriage as a long conve… Had he wed he would have realized it’s actual… a series of brief interrogations
Cartoonists always draw the lightb… pointing up so that no one will think it’s a n…
There is hiding yourself and there is hiding from yourself; the former is often
If a computer could speak we could not understand it
7 in 10 Americans believe in heave… while only 6 in 10 believe in hell which is why the house always wins
On the Mt. Rushmore of cartoon mice I would put four Jerrys
When they told me I was one of many I took them to mean I was the one