If you cut off an arm you are left with a stump to which you affix a prosthetic If you cut off a face you are left with a mask
We fear that the long game Is a long, lost game Because we find ourselves lost Forgetting how, on the surface of… We can plow forward in trust
God is a verb Woman is a noun And man is an adjective Put them together and you have Moderate
We have achieved the classless society: eve– rything is tacky
100% of success is showing up on time
A heart can only beat in synch with another A broken heart still beats because God keeps the time– just as He keeps us–
Liberalism without religion is lik… dining at an all-you-can-eat buffe… There’s plenty of everything but everything is so-so Religion without liberalism is lik…
Most people can get away with sweeping a few things under the ru… but when I started working at the… I couldn’t help noticing how the rugs looked like
A movement can only cohere around a shared wish and the left sticks together by collectively wishing that Jews deserve what they get
History won’t begin when we elimin… hoping that now everyone will get… Because step 1 in ending status i… and step 2 turns out to be elimina… This simulacrum that we live in ai…
Because bodies make a fart joke of… etiquette used to dictate that whe… passed gas at, e.g., a dinner part… the polite thing to do was to pret… the fart never happened
I grew up listening to Barbara St… You don’t bring me flowers anymore and determined I’d never make that… Ten years into marriage my wife sa… Don’t bring me flowers anymore
Goodbye is not always goodbye In fact, it never is For while I may never see you aga… I’ll never unsee you
I have a deep need for love but an even deeper fear of rejecti… and God is both the greatest gamble and the surest thing
I used to pretend that Kafka’s The Trial was my favorite book but these days I bring a courtroom stenographer with me