The reason so many well-considered ideas appear laughable in retrospect is that people involuntarily assume that whatever we believe and prioritize now will continue to be believed and prioritized lat...
The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.
The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks.
The future makes the rules.
The Constitution is awesome, but still overrated; it’s like Pet Sounds.
The Constitution is awesome, but still overrated; it’s like Pet Sounds. The wide-scale adoption of political correctness was silly, but not unreasonable. The freedom that was lost was mostly theoretic...
Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation.
Sometimes I fantasize about the US head of state as a super-lazy, super-moral libertarian despot and think, That would certainly make everything easier, even though I can’t think of one person who’d q...
Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).
So often does it happen that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know there is no key.
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert needed ABBA to invent gay Australians. The
My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will.
My feelings about politics and literature and mathematics and the rest of life’s minutiae can only be described through a labyrinthine of six-sided questions, but everything that actually matters can...
Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.
Julia's fake love for Vance was exhilarating and idiotic; it was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.
Jewel moved 432,000 hardcover copies of A Night Without Armor, thereby making her the best-selling American poet of the past fifty years.
It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.
It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.
In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.
If you hate everything, you’re a banal asshole…but if you don’t hate anything, you’re boring.