In the past walking into a cathedral made you feel small Now it makes you feel fat

Marriage is a safe harbor until the moment you harbor a grudge

Post-Enlightenment Secular Mater… Terminated in the pandemic lockdow… You could say The End of History Came after all

Language is great for Letting us tell each other Where it hurts And you keep telling me It hurts when I don’t listen

The world has gone to heck And heck is hell Minus the pleasure

The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published

At long last Today is the day I owe it all to you And I can only repay my debt By giving my all

There’s a groove I’ve been going… just between heroic and anti-heroi… that’s perfectly romantic But betwixt the truth-teller and the soothsayer

I have not loved my neighbor as my… but I have consistently greeted hi… with an insouciant bonhomie

The human condition is either thinking that we’re free when we’re actually held captive or thinking that we’re captive when we’re actually free

Slow and steady wins the race If there is no finish line How do you win If you can’t finish first? If you’re the one

Just as Tastes like chicken is code for I only want chicken I don’t know what I want

It’s not that we are past The point of no return But that we the people Have invested our life savings In scorn for our neighbor

There aren’t any lines That you can’t cross– This is called free will But there are lines That you can’t uncross–

Democracy is a game of bridge where each coalition must partner… and going for broke requires not just suicidal risk but a suicide pact,