We have to be both symbol and self at the same time.

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Fight or flight?
Fight or flight or love.

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The human mind is unable to create a new ritual for the same reasons it is unable to create a new form of hospitality:the need to satisfy the human heartmind.

In a lawsuit, you are not trying to convince the lawyers.

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Presidential elections are our bread and circuses.

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Everyone likes to think they are playing a part in an ideal society.
Yet these parts are mostly dysfunctional bureaucracy.
This is because all the parts are played by primates.

Life is like the Internet writ large.
We click along, click along, distracted by this, obsessed by that. Suddenly it is twenty years later.

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Understanding life does not give life meaning.

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Got delusions?

The world isn’t small.
Your world is small!

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I may not be changing my personality, but i am changing my description of my personality.

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All we have is oversimplification.

Love is learning.
School me.

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You get the princess and you live happily for a little while.

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No one else needs to understand the love you have for other people as much as you yourself.

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Do not confuse communication with truth.

In theory we can change, but not in practice.

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All men are created equal but all men are not created equally interesting.

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Eventually, for security reasons, they will ban fire.

The student must go over and take the subject matter away from their teacher.

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Studying is a kind of intelligent listening.

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Simplicities stops the pains of learning.

Hopes slip through our hands like sand in an hourglass.

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There comes a time when even being alive is age-inappropriate.

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An enjoyable part of aging is feeling sorry for yourself.

You should sweat the small stuff.

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Let’s keep the penis in happiness.

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In theory, people are such a good idea.

The price of happiness — is unhappiness.

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Perhaps all we are just looking for a pet with benefits.

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Weather — emotions in the forms of matter.

The ability to work depends on The Will to Drive (to work).

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It’s Bring Your Attitude to Work day.

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Lines for Coming to Work™: I can smell the synergy.

Las Vegas has become so commercialized!

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Up-to-date souvenir shops should sell not only souvenir shot-glasses, but also souvenir bongs and souvenir hypodermic needles.

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A landscape cannot be seen from a train, anymore than wine can be appreciated in the bottle.
A landscape must breathe.

Having kids is a leisurely exam on your understanding of the everyday world.

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You can’t go home once.

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People have kids so they will have something to talk about.

The iPod is an aural hoodie.

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iPod: wee Pod

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On the web we click our own buttons.

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The Internet is a better waste of time than television.

It is not what the artist meant,
but what the art means.

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Early American furniture is make-do furniture.

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Classical music soothes the civilized beast.

Novelty is losing its novelty for me.

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After a long vacation: the novelty of the familiar.

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On vacation nothing happens in a much more stimulating way.

Ignorance has a name.
It is “artistic pluralism.”

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It is not what the artist meant, but what the art means.

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Music is a kind of design, a sophisticated simplicity.

Dressed in the latest styles, you are wearing modernity clothes.

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People die but their clothes last

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The job of the poet is to get sidetracked.

Making aphorisms is making intellectual jewelry.

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I am finally putting 1.263982 + 2.736018 together.

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Because we are so interested in people we tend to think that people themselves are interesting.

The reality we deal with is the picture we have of reality.

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We can’t handle the truth: there is too much of it.

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The world is a Rorschach test.

The world isn’t small.
Your world is small!

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I too have felt the elephant.
He is so big!!

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In spite of the vastness of the world, smallness is where we live.

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Everything is everything all the time.

I do not believe in wisdom of the ancestors, at least if the ancestors were anything like my relatives.

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No one came to America to wipe out native Americans.

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Marx struggled with his finances.
Freud with his sexuality.

Sex is for kids!

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Women are my lower power.

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Gay sex is safe sex:
there is no chance of having kids.
And it does not involve women.

Dating is a kind of performance art.

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A woman stands between a man’s desire and her body.

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Everyone is wearing falsies.

Two socks are better than one.

Humanity has a small-man complex.

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Time can not tell what time can not tell.
Time will only tell what time will tell.

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Let us not reinvent the square wheel.

Art works in the je ne sais quoi part of our brain.

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Art decants the mind.

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Modern art is all about nothing.

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I am at the art museum.
What am I suppose to think here?

Since nothing works we invent magic.

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The rural countryside is filling up, but it is not developing any culture.
It is feed-lot for people.

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Women are the New World.

Enlightenment?
You can’t handle enlightenment!

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It is strange I spend so much time thinking about religion.
Am I practicing my intellectual back-hand?

I want to watch a news-program where the commentators are crying as they read the news.

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Employee appreciation is being appreciated for not being yourself.

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Postmodern theory is not itself postmodern.