Aphorisms
- All this debate over whether or not sex is religious. Â Of course it is. Â It always ends with someone asking for forgiveness, doesn’t it?
- People have told me they are uncomfortable with my self-defecating sense of humor.
- Stupidity may be our only renewable resource.
- Scientists use a precise and rigorous language to control variables; if you hear it used by others, it’s to control people.
- I think I’m some kind of compromise between Sisyphus and Priapus. Trying to roll my rock and perpetually hurting myself.
- Living in the now? Â You should have been living in the now a month ago! Â (attributed to Galen Honea)
- Now I want my poetry to do what I should have been doing all along with photo albums, home movies, and journal notebooks. Â It’s kind of pathetic, really.
- Over two millennia of Western Philosophy preparing us to explore the last great issue:  amateur porn.
- If a film critic’s final flourish in some bit of analysis is to question the truth and reliability of the image, suspect the truth and reliability of the film critic.
- Artists my age are supposed to be eating their own livers with a malevolent gusto, but I still don’t have the stomach for it.
- Retirement isn’t the end. Â Soldiers and jocks retire to start careers managing everything. Â And doesn’t such perpetual renewal renew us all?
- That nagging fear you just may not be smart enough to figure out a really great way to cheat people.