You can never throw away what you create even when you toss out what was created. The process of creating is part of the creation.

It's amazing how great a gift a stolen IHOP cup can make.

The developed world is Dorian Gray. The developing world is the Picture of Dorian Gray. Questions?

Handwriting love notes and using the dustbin as an editor can make the girlfriend a part of global warming.

Sometimes there are lines in the sand. More often there are lines on the calendar.

There is no good way to know how much one is considered, but arbitrary items seem to work for most people.

People act as if they will be judged by one work within a life. But we're judged by our body of works... or should be.

Running can be a form of procrastination. It can also be a form of survival.

Success is accidental. Be prepared.

The only thing that truly protects freedom is the will to have it - and that will can only be negotiated from a position of weakness.

Any place that serves roast beef sandwiches without horseradish does not make sandwiches.

We all live in our own projected sanitariums, some more complicated than others, growing as we age. When the projections become complex, we sometimes simplify so that we can move forward. It's what we miss when we simplify that marks our innocence.

A benign enemy is better than a dangerous friend. But making that choice between the two can make a dangerous enemy out of dangerous friend.

If we follow our history of society, we can see patterns in our advances. If we consider mankind, as a whole, to be a creature instead of a species, we might consider that the need for freedom, as a trait, permits adaptability and generalization - providing a broader chance for the creature to survive. The more freedom we have, the more potential we have to react in a way that permits our survival. More freedoms, more likely to survive.

Bureaucracy protects decision-makers from the results of their decisions. Imagine a non-lethal electrical shock administered to a decision-maker for every poor choice made. I can dream, can't I?

When something goes wrong, some people stick in that moment to find a solution to the problem that they can live with. This can take a very long time.

If I wanted to control the world, the first thing I would do would be to control all the information and decide who gets to see what. Sort of like the present copyright and patent systems do.

If I stood outside of the Universe, it would probably look about the same size as other Universes, give or take the standard deviation.

Mental Note: Women are the first to tell someone that the person has gained weight. Yet it's the last thing a woman typically wants to hear.

Asked: "When did you get grey?"
Answered, concerned: "When was the last time you had your eyes tested?"

I always say that a person is as good as their choices. I have neglected to mention that a person's choices, at a certain point, are as good as the culmination of all their other choices. But that takes too long to explain.

When you dry out the The Grapes of Wrath, do you get The Raisins of Wrath? Do they taste good in bagels with cinnamon?

Religion without God is atheism. So where's God?

Said to a child misbehaving: "The Order of Twiddling Thumbs Does Not Approve." It's all in the delivery, you know... (There's something here I'm going to play with sometime).

Asked by a recent introduction about how to be a writer: "Eat lots of alphabet soup."

Is there a 'Chicken Soup for Authors of Chicken Soup Books'?

People buy exercise and diet books to keep their dusty exercise equipment from floating away.

Some people search for meaning. I wander around kicking the dust below and mumbling, "that's not it."

Some people find what they're looking for because they define what they are looking for by their search. The answer is defined by their question.

Some people get lost on the paths less traveled. But lost to whom? The 'lost' typically know exactly where they are...

This is a first entry under 'scribbling'; it's where I'll start shoving incomplete (and sometimes unrelated)thoughts that I write on paper. They just haven't fleshed out into full entries yet.

Anarchy is the default state of democracy.

The only reason that we believe we are more enlightened than animals is because we have told ourselves that we are.

People don't buy art. They buy the stories that come with the art. This is why religious texts are full of stories. During periods of illiteracy, verbal stories are all that people had. And the love of these stories has resulted in bloodshed, charred flesh, eviscerations, beheadings and much more. Philosophy is so much more clean.

True democracy is socialism in disguise; if the masses are poor then the poor should have greater voice than the rich by virtue of democracy. That doesn't happen.

Chicken breasts aren't supposed to have bones in them. Those are ribs.

Code is not just Law, it is Intent.

We talk about the planet as if we're truly concerned, but it is really the survival of our species we're interested in. Maybe on the next planet we'll do better.