Why Failure Is the Real God of Victory
If you make the mistake of believi… there’s no room for error the surest way to avoid making ano… is to keep making the same mistake
Denial leaves a vacuum that is ever filled by wishful thinking
Soft totalitarianism is like shoes That are just tight enough To remain comfortable If you don’t go anywhere
I finally realized that when Smokey Bear says Only you can prevent forest fires Only I really believe him
Accustomed to the view from their… the rich had no idea they were fas… a very steep waterfall
When I was a baby My mother wiped my bum Social media, then, is the fountai… As I become its obedient child Every time it wipes my memory
We are all mistaken in locating the black sheep’s diff… in the color of his fleece when the real distinction is that the other members of the flock
Optimists dance the two-step: It’s going to get worse before it gets better Pessimists plod
Trump’s genius is his nothingness which allows him to be everything e.g., He’s America’s inside joke (American democracy was a joke lon…
When I ask myself if I might be wrong, there’s a whole lot of red tape
The never-ending apocalyptic refra… may just be yet another version of death’s denial: The world must be ending
The unconscious is to repression as The algorithms are to redaction
There are two kinds of people in t… Those who believe in God And those who believe in God But also believe in God You can tell the latter
As you age getting enough exercise in futility becomes more and more a portent
To paraphrase Hitchcock a marriage is only as good as its villain