Doubting Me
Doubting me ain’t never got no one nothing but proved wrong.1 Without a doubt, the absolutely fastest way to alienate me is to treat me as if I were incapable of doing something other people can do. E-Town Concrete : The Renaissance : Appetite For Distinction↩
Mr. Unhappy
You can still endure the company of a person who is always unhappy so long as you do not feel his unhappiness is purely his own doing. After coming to this conclusion, his presence is simply intolerable.
Stillness
The primary beauty of life is found in those moments that give you goosebumps, in which the setting sun turns the clouds into a palette of reds against a blue-gray background, when the stillness of the world seems complete, when the wars and madness men drive themselves to are utterly far away, when all things [...]
Attention-Hungry
One of the traits I most frustrating in others is being hungry for attention. This is a trait particularly obvious in some types of children, whose entire demeanor seems to consist solely of being charming and clever. They become so wrapped up in commanding attention in this way that they never sit by themselves in [...]
This Christmas
For this Christmas, I think I may have the following t-shirts printed up and sent to Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter, President Bush and a few other members of our American right wing. The t-shirts say in plain white letters against a green background: “Jesus hates you.” And I’d include a nice little Christmas card reading, [...]
Love, n.
Love, n. When two people share an obsession, each with the other, that if it were had by only one of them would qualify that one as stalking the other.
The Crops Of My Past
I’ve met that point in my life: want came to need. Burn these fields of corn that surround; my harvest gone at the price of maturity. But these remains I’ve left to rot will be resurrected again and again by the next generation of children who want to change minds with the stain on hand. [...]
Modesty
The whole notion that there is such a thing as modesty is one of the clearest of examples that society demands from us either dishonesty or a sort of blindness to reality: we are supposed to undervalue our talents or fail to see them and we are also supposed to pretend our failures are less [...]
The Illusion Of Conscious Will
I would like to give the strongest recommendation I can give for the book I just started reading: “The Illusion Of Conscious Will”, by Daniel M. Wegner. (Amazon.com page here.) While it is not the most beautiful of books (books written by careful, academic thinkers concerned more with truth than beauty seldom have a beautiful [...]
I Used To Be A Dreamer
I once had dreams: I now have plans.