If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can’t just try to see the other side of an argument. That’s not enough. You have to go all the way. Over
If we all took media messages at their absolute face value, we’d all be sleeping with our best friends. And that does happen, sometimes.* But herein lies the trap: We’ve also been trained to think thi...
I enjoy hating musicians far more than I enjoy appreciating them. As far as I'm concerned, when someone becomes a rock star, he quits being a person.
Fake love is a very powerful thing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point sign...
Even the invisible are insecure. It's the most universal problem we have. It's so universal, it might not even count as a problem.
Batman never questions the logic of letting a childhood experience dictate his entire life.
The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is midly zen. There are public road signs that say "Gusty Winds May Exist". This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel advice.
Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most men remain average; males a...
We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.
We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.
We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.
Though I obviously have no proof of this, the one aspect of life that seems clear to me is that good people do whatever they believe is the right thing to do. Being virtuous is hard, not easy. The ide...
The reason behind everything always has to be something else entirely.
The future is always impossible.
The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.
People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.
No one has ever honestly said, I hate that this joke exists, even though it’s clearly hilarious. It
Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.
It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.