“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“He sallied forth, having told all those bally lies with the clear, blue, pop-eyed gaze of a young child.”
― The Inimitable Jeeves
― The Inimitable Jeeves
“I spit on fools who fail to include breasts in their metaphysics, // Star-gazers who have not enumerated them among the moons of the earth”
― New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012
― New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012
“Increasingly, municipalities (and companies contracted by municipalities) are behaving like businesses, viewing residents as potential sources of revenue, as well as viewing the generation of revenue via fines as a form of productivity.”
― Carceral Capitalism
― Carceral Capitalism
“Shaping the principles of policy debate, I learned, is often the first step toward winning it.”
― The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
― The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
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