Our thirst for narrative makes saints of reformed sinners, and reformed sinners of saints.
“Because I can” is a fundamental and oft-overlooked principle of human behavior.
Sometimes we imagine things into existence, more often out of it.
To understand the past, treat it like the present; to understand the present, treat it like the past.
Ideas rule the world — the ideas of the people who rule the world.
No one thinks to correct hypocrisy by aligning his beliefs with his actions.
Every good performance artist is known as something else.
The force of an analogy lies in the similarity; the point lies in the difference.
Hallmark and Instagram are just two of the many fortunes to be made by permitting humans to communicate without the inconvenient obligation of articulate speech.
Wrath, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, and Sanctimony.