He should have said: If everything is permitted then God does not exist
All sense of control is an illusio… except for the control you feel in letting go of your need for contro… handing it over to God or to other people
We live in an age when the greatest danger is an excess of caution
It’s not that you’re jeal– ous, but that you guard your jeal– ousy jealously
The culture war is a cyber war where you can’t tell that you’re behind enemy lines until you’re compelled to read your lines
In wristwatch advertisements the doomsday clock is always set to ten past ten
I’ve wasted most of my life wondering Why do I believe in God? when I should have been asking Why does God believe in me?
Steely Dan sings “I don’t wanna do your dirty work… again and again only once intoning “I foresee terrible trouble
It’s a lot easier for men to dwell in the mystery of what a woman wants than to acknowledge what it is exactly that
Mid-life crisis: the failure to start hoping you don’t get what you want
Everyone knows it could go either way but no one believes it could have gone either way So we tell ourselves
In families adept at keeping open secrets no one expects you to state the obvious
Questions are the an– swer to everything; now, how can I assist you
The narcissist is a two—sided coin… Heads, I need you Tails, I hate you– and the more you meet a narcissist… the more they will hate you
All forms of certainty are mutations of knowing that you must die which is why the true believer is always the most likely